Architectural Features
Became parochial in 1228 when the unfinished fabric of the original church was adapted and incorporated into the new church.
Crypt, chancel and apse date from 1078-85
early C13 west wall and nave arcades incorporate crossing piers from the originally-planned cruciform church with crossing tower and transepts
C14 tower
Sculpture: 2 carved cross heads, one of late C8 or early C9, the other of early C9.
Two C8 or C9 pieces of a carved doorway, one with a stylised grape and scroll motif.
C10 cross shaft carved with interlace and key motifs.
C10 hogback gravestone carved with a bear.
Cll cross shaft with key carvings.
Medieval moorland cross known as Ain Howe Cross which preceeded the replacement Ana Cross which stands on Spaunton Moor close to the Lastingham-Spaunton parish boundary.
Monuments: 2 wall tablets by Bennet and Flintoft in the north aisle, to members of the Shepherd family of Douthwaite, dated respectively c1820 and c1827.
Wall monument by J Flintoft to John Jackson, RA., died 1831, in the south aisle.
Behind the south-east pier is a beautifully carved Calvary captured from a Spanish warship, the 'Salvador del Mundi', and subsequently donated to the church.
In 1078 Stephen of Whitby refounded the monastery and began building the abbey church, substantial portions of which were standing when the site was abandoned about 1085.