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Latitude: 53.8966 / 53°53'47"N
Longitude: -0.9624 / 0°57'44"W
OS Eastings: 468278
OS Northings: 444985
OS Grid: SE682449
Mapcode National: GBR PRQC.FY
Mapcode Global: WHFCK.5BY5
Plus Code: 9C5XV2WQ+J2
Entry Name: Church of Saint Helen
Listing Date: 7 November 1966
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1148480
English Heritage Legacy ID: 326242
Also known as: St Helen's Church
ID on this website: 101148480
Location: St Helen's Church, Wheldrake, York, North Yorkshire, YO19
County: York
Civil Parish: Wheldrake
Built-Up Area: Wheldrake
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Wheldrake St Helen
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: Church building
WHELDRAKE MAIN STREET
SE 6844-6944
(north side)
14/129
Church of Saint Helen
7.11.66
I
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Church. C14 west tower with nave and 5-sided apse of 1779. 'This CHURCH
was / rebuilt, & its TOWER Repair'd / in the Years 1778 & 1779. / Wm WALKER
& THOS. PETCH / Church-Wardens.' on wooden plaque in tower. By John
Simpson, Curate. Magnesian limestone ashlar tower with pinkish-brown brick
nave with red brick and ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. 2-stage west
tower. South entrance, continuous 5-bay nave and chancel, north vestry
polygonal apse. Tower: west side, short diagonal buttresses with off-sets
and niche for statue of Blessed Virgin Mary to right. Pointed entrance with
plank door under hoodmould in double-chamfered surround. 3-light window
with intersecting-tracery and quatrefoils to head. lst-stage band. Twin-
light bell-openings to each side with cinquefoil heads. Battlements with
pinnacles. Vestry to north side. Nave and chancel: plinth. South entrance
to first bay, double plank doors with ormamental ironwork hinges under red
gauged brick round arch with ashlar imposts and keystone. Above, an oculus
in red gauged brick surround and with keystone. Otherwise tall, round
arched windows with red gauged brick dressings and ashlar keystone, sills
and impost band. Moulded ashlar eaves band. Ashlar coping. Apse: similar
windows to 3 sides. Continuous impost and eaves band. Separately roofed.
Interior has moulded cornice, and plaster cove to flat ceiling. Panelled
dado. Double-chamfered 4-centred tower arch. C19 fittings. Octagonal font
c.1300. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p.369.
Church Papers.
Listing NGR: SE6831745007
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