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Saint Hilda

Saint Hilda

Thornton-le-Dale

North Yorkshire

C11 nave and chancel

Architectural Features

restoration and buttresses added C15

The bellcote is supported on two piers with chamfered bases and offsets partly obscuring C15 pointed window of three trefoil head lights and panel tracery.

Iron-studded door, later reinforced, probably C15.

To east, blocked pointed arch of probable C15 chapel, now containing rebuilt paired lights.

C15 east window of three trefoil-headed lights with panel tracery.

Interior: C13 pointed chancel arch of two chamfered orders springs from C11 responds with attached shafts with cushion capital.

Incised spiral carving to capitals and bases, and zigzag to responds.

C11 chamfered altar stone with incised cross to centre.

C11 or C12 circular font on 1904 base.

C18 octagonal pulpit of raised and fielded panels with ogee tester inlaid on underside, and finial.