St Wilfrid's Church is an Anglican church in Great Langton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
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The church was built in about 1140, from which period the north and south walls of the nave survive, the south with an original doorway and the north with a doorway probably inserted later in the century. The chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century, and altered in the 14th century. A south porch and north vestry were added in the 19th century, and the central wooden tower was removed and replaced by a bellcote at the west end.[1][2] The building was grade II listed in 1970.[3]
The church is built of rendered sandstone and has a stone slate roof. The church consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel and a north vestry, and at the west end is a bellcote. The porch is gabled, and has a doorway with a chamfered surround, a pointed arch and a hood mould The inner doorway is Norman, and has columns with cushion capitals. In the chancel is a priest's door with a pointed arch, and at the east end is an angle buttress surmounted by a pinnacle. Inside, there is a 15th-century effigy of a priest.[3][4]
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edit- ^ "St Wilfred, Great Langton, Yorkshire, North Riding". The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain & Ireland. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ Page, William (1914). A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1. London: Victoria County History. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ a b "Church of Saint Wilfrid". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.