Church Of St Chad

The Church of St Chad is a church built in 1864 by Crossland, located in Stonebeck Up Middlesmoor, North Yorkshire. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry.

The west tower is three stages high, with offset angle buttresses leading up to the bell stage at the west end, and bands between the stages. It has a flat-headed two-light cusped west window with a hoodmould on the first stage, and two-light chamfered basket-arched windows on the second stage, along with clocks on the south and west sides. The belfry windows are three-light, cusped with a circle at the top of the pointed arch, and also feature a hoodmould. The tower is topped with a moulded cornice and an embattled parapet.

The nave consists of three bays, with a gabled porch on the left that has a moulded chamfered pointed-arched doorway, which contains a board door in a pointed-arched surround. The porch has coping and a gable cross. To the right, there are two two-light chamfered, cusped traceried, pointed-arched windows with quatrefoils in the heads and hoodmoulds. The nave also has shaped modillions, stone coping, and a gable cross.

The chancel features a continuous sill and consists of two bays. On the left, there is an offset angle buttress with a blind two-light pointed arch at the gabled top. The chancel has two windows similar to those in the nave, as well as an east window with three lights. There is a flat-headed two-light east window in the north vestry, which has cusped lights and a hoodmould.

Inside, the church has a three-bay north arcade with round piers that have leaf motif capitals and chamfered pointed arches. The chancel arch is similar in style. The font, possibly Anglo-Saxon, has a round bowl shape on a short round column and features four round panels carved later to represent the four apostles. There is also an Anglo-Saxon cross-head with doubled cross bars, associated with St Chad, and a 17th-century brass for the Yorke family.