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St Cuthbert

St Cuthbert

High Ackworth

West Yorkshire

C15 west tower, otherwise 1855 by J. W. Hugall (Pevsner).

Architectural Features

in each side of the top stage, a recessed belfry window of 2 cusped lights with a quatrefoil in the head and a hoodmould, a dripband with 3 gargoyles, a restored embattled parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles

on north wall of tower, a fine early C18 wall monument to members of the Lowther family of Ackworth Park, in a Corinthian aedicule with broken pediment

in base of tower, a medieval tub font on quatrefoil base, and at west end of south aisle an octagonal font with raised lettering on the side panels, including the date 1663.

In south aisle, a wall monument to Robert Gully, son of John Gully Esq of Ackworth Park, with full inscription recording the circumstances of his death during the Chinese War of 1842 (now known as the Opium Wars).