Church Of St Wilfrid

SOUTH STAINLEY WITH CAYTON MAIN STREET SE 36 SW (east side) South Stainley 2/119 Church of St Wilfrid

GV II

Church of St Wilfrid. 1845 probably by John Oates ofHarrogate. Magnesian limestone; steeply-pitched blue slate roof. 4-bay nave with west bellcote, south porch to bay 1 and a 3-bay chancel. with north vestry. In an Early English style. Plinth. The porch has a roll-moulded pointed arch and attached columns plus hoodmould; the steeply-pitched roof has a coping with an ornate cross finial. 3 paired lancet windows to the nave, divided by buttresses; a roll-moulded string course at window sill level is carried around the building. The chancel has a central chamfered pointed-arched doorway flanked by lancet windows and buttresses. Gable copings to nave and chancel. A 3-light east window, the central light taller with a stepped hoodmould. North side: lancet windows as south side; west end: 2 lancet windows divided by a deep stepped buttress terminating in a corbel supporting the bellcote composed of 4 shouldered arches containing 2 bells, with spire and weather-vane. Interior: moulded stone corbels support large roof timbers in cruck-style construction; the chancel arch is suitably tall and narrow. The church cost £800 to rebuild, the stone coming from quarries on the nearby Stainley Gill. The Rev J B Wayte was the vicar and a few carved stones from the earlier church remain.

Listing NGR: SE3068363181