Architectural Features
Blank parapets with gargoyles.
C14 font with octagonal coarse gritstone bowl on octagonal shaft resting on round base, and tall Perpendicular canopy.
SE1287 : St Mary & St Alkleda, Middleham - Font & font cover
On north wall of tower, grave cover of Robert Thornton, Abbot of Jervaulx, died 1510.
On south wall of tower, early C18 benefaction boards and brass of 1734.
In north aisle, window lintels are re-used medieval grave covers, also Celtic-type cross- head of c1920 formerly on Market Cross.
In north aisle west window, fragments of stained glass including scene of martyrdom of St Alkelda.
South wall: monument to Dean Edward Place, died 1785.
Chancel has C19 stencilled wall painting.
Middleham Church was elevated to a collegiate body with a Dean, 6 chaplains, 4 clerks and 6 choristers in 1477 by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, its a royal foundation it survived the Dissolution, although the prebendal appointments lapsed.