St Winifred
Stainton, Yorkshire
Stainton was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Stantone with Helgebi’ (Hellaby).
The church was built in the 12th century, and its tower and crocketed spires make it one of the most splendid Perpendicular churches in South Yorkshire.
There are some wonderful treasures to see inside and outside the church. Thousands of babies have been baptised in the 14th century font and gone on to hear sermons from the Jacobean oak pulpit.
There is a great elm chest, said to have belonged to Henry Cundal, the last Abbot of Roche Abbey, and made around 1500. There are some wonderful memorials to local citizens, and beautiful stained glass windows (including some rare fragments of medieval stained glass).