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St Wilfrid

St Wilfrid

Monk Fryston

North Yorkshire

Anglo Saxon origins with C13, C14, C15, C17, C19 and C20 additions and alterations.

Architectural Features

Three-stage tower: early C14 diagonal buttresses with off-sets to first stage.

Nave: C13 aisles

C14 clerestorey.

Nave has C13 arcades with circular piers, broadly moulded capitals and double-chamfered arches.

C13 double-chamfered chancel arch with squints to either side.

Two C17 wall tablets.

Cast-iron plaque restoration of choir by Thomas Edmunds in 1685.

Font is probably C13: square on plan, each side with a flatly carved cross in a circle and above that an arch-head with a fleur-de-lys

wooden cover dated 1669 and suspended from decorated wrought-iron chain.

Communion rail dated 1664.

Stained glass: some medieval fragments in north and south aisle west windows, otherwise by Kempe, 1891.