Danby Wiske Church

Danby Wiske Church is a church that dates back to the 12th century, featuring a south wall and doorway from that period. The chancel and north aisle were added in the 14th century, followed by a tower in the late 15th century and a porch in the 18th century. The building is constructed from rubble and ashlar sandstone, with roofs made of Welsh and Westmorland slate.

The church includes a west tower, a nave with a south porch, a clerestory, a north aisle, and a chancel. The tower is built of ashlar and has offset diagonal buttresses, a stair tower with two slit windows, a two-light 15th-century belfry window, and an embattled parapet. The nave consists of three bays, featuring a south doorway with a Norman tympanum depicting three standing men in long robes. The south porch is gabled, with raised verges, shaped kneelers, and stone coping. To the right of the porch, there is a two-light window with a hoodmould and a single-light pointed-arch window. The clerestory is made of ashlar and has two-light windows, with an offset buttress at the east end and an embattled parapet.

The chancel, made of rubblestone with stone dressings, has two bays and features two windows of two lights with cusped Y-tracery under hoodmoulds, flanking a trefoil-headed priest's door. Both the nave and chancel roofs have stone coping with a gable cross on the chancel. Inside, the tower has a vault with diagonal and ridge ribs around a large circle. The north arcade consists of three bays with round piers and octagonal abaci that support double-chamfered pointed arches. The stalls contain some re-set Jacobean panels, and there is a 14th-century effigy of a lady, along with an aumbry and piscina.