St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske

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St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske
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St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske
St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske
54°15′27″N1°25′27.59″W / 54.25750°N 1.4243306°W / 54.25750; -1.4243306
OS grid reference SE 37630 84832
Location Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
History
Dedication St John the Baptist
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II* listed [1]
Administration
Province York
Diocese Leeds
Archdeaconry Richmond and Craven
Deanery Wensley [2]
Parish Ainderby Steeple with Yafforth and Kirby Wiske with Maunby

St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England [3] in Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire.

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History

The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, and was restored in 1872–73 by G. E. Street. It is built in stone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, a plinth, diagonal buttresses, a three-light Perpendicular west window with a hood mould, clock faces, a band, two-light bell openings with pointed arches, and an embattled parapet. The south doorway is Norman, and has a round arch with two orders and a hood mould. [4] [5]

Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with

Organ

A pipe organ was built in 1883 at a cost of £400 by Isaac Abbott of Leeds. [6] A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St John the Baptist, Main Street (1281456)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "St John the Baptist, Kirby Wiske". A Church Near You. The Church of England. Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  3. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: The North Riding. Yale University Press. p. 212. ISBN   0140710299.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St John the Baptist, Kirby Wiske (1281456)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 24 February 2025.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Organ Opening at Kirby Wiske" . Daily Gazette for Middlesbrough. England. 1 June 1883. Retrieved 26 December 2016– via British Newspaper Archive.
  7. ↑ "NPOR [N07922]". National Pipe Organ Register . British Institute of Organ Studies . Retrieved 26 December 2016.
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