Church Of St Felix

The Church of St Felix is a Grade II* listed building located in Felixkirk. It dates from the 12th to 13th centuries, with a 15th-century tower, a 19th-century south porch, and an apse that was restored and rebuilt between 1859 and 1860 by W Dykes. The church is constructed of sandstone ashlar and features a graduated stone slate roof with ashlar coping and a lead roof over the chancel.

The structure includes a nest tower, an aisled nave with a south porch, and a chancel with an apse. The two-stage embattled tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets, a 19th-century three-light window, a two-light bell stage, and a rebuilt parapet. The nave consists of two bays, with a Norman west window in the south aisle and mainly 19th-century tracery designed in a 13th-century style. The chancel has one bay and a two-bay apse, featuring a reset and recut Norman doorway flanked by a single order of colonettes. The western bay of the apse includes re-used 13th-century two-light windows, a string course, and a corbel table.

Inside, the church has round arcade piers from the later 12th century with square abaci, which have been somewhat restored, and 19th-century west responds that support an early 13th-century double-chamfered pointed-arch arcade. The chancel arch, dating from around 1125, is adorned with zig-zag and beakhead ornamentation and rests on triple responds with interlace capitals. The west bay of the chancel features deeply-splayed round-arched windows flanked by a single order of colonettes with cushion capitals that carry a roll moulding. Notable interior elements include the tomb of William de Cantilupe, who died in 1309, which has a retooled recumbent effigy of a knight in a cusped recess with a crocketed gable, and an early 14th-century recumbent effigy of Eva, the daughter of Sir Adam of Boltby.