Latitude: 54.0637 / 54°3'49"N
Longitude: -1.5327 / 1°31'57"W
OS Eastings: 430683
OS Northings: 463181
OS Grid: SE306631
Mapcode National: GBR KPQG.Z1
Mapcode Global: WHC87.F4C1
Plus Code: 9C6W3F78+FW
Entry Name: Church of St Wilfrid
Listing Date: 18 May 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1174269
English Heritage Legacy ID: 331626
Also known as: St Wilfrid's Church, South Stainley
ID on this website: 101174269
Location: St Wilfrid's Church, South Stainley, North Yorkshire, HG3
County: North Yorkshire
District: Harrogate
Civil Parish: South Stainley with Cayton
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Tagged with: Church building
SOUTH STAINLEY WITH CAYTON MAIN STREET SE 36 SW (east side) South Stainley 2/119 Church of St Wilfrid
GV II
Church of St Wilfrid. 1845 probably by John Oates ofHarrogate. Magnesian limestone; steeply-pitched blue slate roof. 4-bay nave with west bellcote, south porch to bay 1 and a 3-bay chancel. with north vestry. In an Early English style. Plinth. The porch has a roll-moulded pointed arch and attached columns plus hoodmould; the steeply-pitched roof has a coping with an ornate cross finial. 3 paired lancet windows to the nave, divided by buttresses; a roll-moulded string course at window sill level is carried around the building. The chancel has a central chamfered pointed-arched doorway flanked by lancet windows and buttresses. Gable copings to nave and chancel. A 3-light east window, the central light taller with a stepped hoodmould. North side: lancet windows as south side; west end: 2 lancet windows divided by a deep stepped buttress terminating in a corbel supporting the bellcote composed of 4 shouldered arches containing 2 bells, with spire and weather-vane. Interior: moulded stone corbels support large roof timbers in cruck-style construction; the chancel arch is suitably tall and narrow. The church cost £800 to rebuild, the stone coming from quarries on the nearby Stainley Gill. The Rev J B Wayte was the vicar and a few carved stones from the earlier church remain.
Listing NGR: SE3068363181
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