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St Mary

St Mary

Woodkirk

West Yorkshire

Late C12 tower embattled c1911, nave rebuilt c1832 retaining inner Medieval walls, chancel rebuilt and extended c1834 by Joseph Furness, a local mason.

Architectural Features

Chancel retains fine Jacobean pulpit of good work, octagonal with interlaced guillouche decoration and arcaded panels.

Fine reused C15 bench ends to choir-stalls with carved rectilinear tracery and good carved poppy-heads.

Vestry has walls panelled with remains of finely carved C17 box-pews.

Window above Priests' door made up of fragments of medieval stained glass.

Other C19 stained glass memorial windows.

Some memorials from earlier church, the best to Christopher Hodgson c1726.

Royal Coat of Arms (on canvas) to George I. Mentioned in Domesday Book c1086 and was granted by William, 2nd Earl Warenne, between 1121 and 1127 to the newly-forwed Priory of Augustinian Canons at Nostell.

The Canons set up a small cell serving Woodkirk Church until the Dissolution in 1539 when it later fell into the hands of the Saviles.