Notable contents of the church

Near the communion rail is a brass of a knight, Sir Richard Aske, and his wife Margaret, (1460), set in Eglestone marble.

It is thought to have originally been in Ellerton priory before the dissolution. Ellerton is a mile upstream of the church.

To the North side of the altar is a grave slab of c.1300 carved in relief on a hard fossiliferous, almost certainly from Purbeck in Dorset. The design is very typical of the Purbeck workshops with a cross formed from four broken circles. 

Given the cost of transport in medieval England it is clearly a high status monument. Only a handful of Purbeck slabs are known this far north and there is a nearly identical slab at Londsborough and two others with different designs at Skipwith and Sherburn. 

Norman tub font with blind rounded-arched interlocking arcading

Grave of Elizabeth Nottingham who died,       4 Feb 1769 age 55 and 

John Nottingham, who died 1 January 1781 age 71.


Painted timber Royal Coat of Arms                        (Hanoverian 1714-1801) 

Stained glass chancel south window dated 1914

Priest chair and desk 19C and a wooden altar table. 

Oak Bell frame inscribed "T.Fawcett & Son 1909"

Large bell inscribed Soli Deo Gloria Pax Hominibus”.

James Cookson, George Young, Joseph Hatfield Churchwardens 1781

Bell - inscribed but is illegible. 

Small bell inscribed “Dalton Pounder, York

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