St Hilda

aisles partly rebuilt C15

Mid C13 tower, restored 1838, 1893 and 1930.

Late C13 Galilee chapel restored 1928

Three-stage tower has angle buttresses, massive late C13 shoring walls on three sides and flying buttresses to south side.

Mid C12 west doorway of four chamfered orders, flanked by earlier doorway remains: two orders of shafts with stiff-leaf capitals and dogtooth moulding between them.

Galilee chapel adjoining west side of tower, has late C13 doorway of four chamfered orders.

Buttressed six bay nave and four bay chancel have mid C13 lancet set behind partly blind three bay arcade in each bay of clerestories.

Altered early C12 round-headed south doorway of two lozenge-and-chevron moulded orders, those below springing moved outwards to allow third order of nook shafts.

Chancel arch of c.1200 has four moulded orders and compound responds of keeled, and filleted round shafts with waterleaf capitals and square abaci.

Font of c.1728: scalloped marble basin and baluster shaft, with wood crown cover.

A modest sized font at the rear of the nave in [[979761]].

© Stephen Craven

Oak rood screen, 1894, by C. Hodgson Fowler.

Late C16 brass on north aisle wall, has female figure and inscription.

Worn medieval grave slab with effigy, on late C13 chest tomb in Bruce chapel.

Many Saxon and medieval architectural fragments throughout church.