Wetherby Methodist Church
Wetherby, Yorkshire
The largest church in Clifford, St Edward's was built between 1845 and 1848 in the Romanesque style.
Clifford, Yorkshire
It was constructed of ashlar limestone with a green slate roof; this Catholic church was established to serve the growing population of Irish workers who came to work in the local flax mill, beginning in about 1831.
The imposing 5 stage west tower, complete with buttresses, was finished in 1866-67 and culminates in a pyramid shaped ashlar roof and a finial. The base of the tower is open and has massive round arches open on three sides, making a very grand entrance to the church.
A mysterious looking ground level door in one of the pillars supporting the tower reveals a square stair turret (becoming cylindrical) that goes all the way up to the fifth stage and is topped with a rather graceful conical roof.
Wetherby, Yorkshire
Wetherby, Yorkshire
There seem to have been chapels of the Knights Templars and Hospitallers in Wetherby but these would be distinct from a parochial chapel for the use of the ordinary laity.
Tadcaster, Yorkshire
Remains from the church’s early life and history can be seen just inside the church, there are fragments from a Saxon cross, an ancient gravestone with scissor markings, as well as remains from a Norman arch and some ancient stained glass from the medieval church.