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St Wilfred

St Wilfred

Brayton

North Yorkshire

C12-C15 with C19 additions.

Architectural Features

C13 - early C14 chancel: south side has buttress, doorway and lancet window to third bay, otherwise 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery.

C19 south porch covers late C12 doorway with 4 orders of arches with beakhead, medallion and chevron ornament and roll moulding.

C12 embattled 3-stage tower with small lancet windows and with a string-course at cill level and a continuous billet frieze at impost level which rises above the openings to form hood-moulds.

Interior: C12 chancel arch of 2 orders, the inner order with chevron moulding and the outer a plain roll moulding supported by responds with capitals with interlaced motifs and decorated square abaci.

Early C14 nave arcade of double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers.

C12 tower arch with scalloped capitals.

In the south wall of the chancel is a partly recut sedilia with crocket finials, also a C16 chest tomb to Lord D'Arcy d. 1558 and wife Dorothea with effigies mutilated during the Protectorate.

Monument to Thomas Bitley to the west of the tower.

Wall monuments to Robinson and Thomas Morley and to Joseph Thompson both by Fishers of York.

Monument to Thomas Bitley to the west of the tower.

© Alan Murray-Rust

Stained glass to east window by H Hughes, 1878.