This splendid medieval church commands your attention with it’s bell cote, 17th century mounting block and war memorial and, if you visit in spring, a spectacular array of daffodils.
Bilton in Ainsty, Yorkshire
The church was built in the Norman style in 1166 and had connections with the Syningthwaite Cistercian nunnery founded about the same time and dissolved in 1535. The church underwent restoration around 1870 under the direction of George Gilbert Scott.
It contains two medieval sheela na gig figurative carvings, as well as a carving of a mermaid pulling her tresses, several corbels, a cross from the Anglo-Saxon period, and other carved fragments.
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.
Clifford, Yorkshire
The largest church in Clifford, St Edward's was built between 1845 and 1848 in the Romanesque style.
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.
