Saint Mary Magdalene

Early C14 arcades, chancel arch

C14 lower section to tower, with C15- C16 upper stages

aisles rebuilt 1582-3.

Tall first stage has blocked C14 pointed west door with 2 wave-moulded orders, pointed 4-light transomed west window with round-arched lights, plain Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould.

original Tudor-arched single-light east windows and narrower single-light west windows with hoodmoulds.

Monuments.

on south side, a group of 6 late C18 - early C19 tablets to the Stovin family in moulded ashlar surrounds with shaped heads and aprons, carved urn, foliate corbels etc

Graveslabs at east end of north aisle: coffin-shaped slab with incised panel beneath cinquefoiled crocketed ogee arch, probably C14-C15, with later inscription ALLICIA

rectangular slab of c1500 with incised arms and worn Gothic border inscription, perhaps the stone to Alexander and Elizabeth Aungier recorded here in the late C17

12-sided font with roll- moulded bowl on shaft with moulded base.

Pine bench pews in nave, probably C16 - C17, with ogee-mouldings, and arm rests with roll motifs bearing a variety of carved floral ornament.

Carved oak traceried reredos of 1901.

Late C19 stained glass east and south windows.

Remains of former late C17 wooden frame turret clock at west end of nave.

The C12 church at Whitgift was pulled down before 1291, probably in the mid C13 by the Rector of Adlingfleet, John le Franceys, to thwart its appropriation by Selby Abbey.

The cemetery and shell of the church were granted to Selby in 1304 and the church subsequently rebuilt.