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Kirkby Wharfe

Selby DistrictUse British English from February 2020Villages in North Yorkshire
St John's Church, Kirkby Wharfe geograph.org.uk 573333
St John's Church, Kirkby Wharfe geograph.org.uk 573333

Kirkby Wharfe is a village 1.9 miles (3 km) south of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford and within Selby District Council.The area around Kirkby Wharfe was settled in Roman times, with a permanent settlement being started in the 8th century. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as being Chirchebi (church village), and both the village and Grimston Park came under the influence of the Baron of Pontefract at the time of Domesday.The village is only 0.62 miles (1 km) away from Ulleskelf which has a railway station on the York to Pontefract Line. The nearest public bus service runs from Ulleskelf with 5 buses a day between Tadcaster and Pontefract.A small area east of the village is a designated SSSI. First notified in 1984, the SSSI details that the floodplain of the River Wharfe is an important site for marshland and the associated plants that grow on marshland around Dorts Dike (a tributary of the Wharfe that enters the river at Ulleskelf).St John the Baptist's Church, Kirkby Wharfe, built in the 12th and 14th centuries serves as the parish church for the Ecclesiastical Parish of Kirkby Wharfe and Ulleskelfe[sic]. The former St Saviour's at Ulleskelf village is now the Village Hall. West of the village is Grimston Park Estate which was the former seat of Lord Londesborough from 1851 to 1872 when it was acquired by the Fielden family.

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LS24 9DD , Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford
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St John the Baptist's Church, Kirkby Wharfe
St John the Baptist's Church, Kirkby Wharfe

St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Kirkby Wharfe, a village south-west of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was first built in the late 12th century, with the nave and parts of the south door surviving from this period. A vicarage was built in the 1240s. The church was extended and altered in the 13th and 14th centuries. The vicar was granted funds from Queen Anne's Bounty in 1757, and the church was restored in 1819. The church was again restored in 1860, with the exterior extensively rebuilt, under the patronage of Albert Denison, 1st Baron Londesborough. The church roof was replaced in the 1950s, and in 1967, it was Grade II* listed. The church is built of Magnesian Limestone and sandstone, with a Welsh slate roof. There is a west tower with two stages, supported by angle buttresses. It has a staircase turret to the south-west, it has lancet windows and Perpendicular windows above, and the tower is topped by battlements and gargoyles. The nave has three bays, with aisles and a south porch, and there is a two-bay chancel with a north chapel. There are a variety of windows, some original and containing fragments of 15th- and 16th-century glass, and others dating from the 1860 restoration. The priest's door to the chancel has a Tudor arch. Inside, there are round piers supporting pointed arches to the aisles, and the tower and chancel arches are also pointed. The font is Norman, and there is a 16th-century pierced screen in the north chapel. There are parts of three 10th-century crosses, and there is an early-19th century memorial depicting the Adoration of the Magi.