Kirkby Fleetham

Kirkby Fleetham is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the A1(M) road. Along with the two nearby villages of Great Fencote and Little Fencote it forms the civil parish of Kirkby Fleetham and Fencote. At the 2011 census, it was recorded as having a population of 560.

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Fencote

Fencote or Great Fencote is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 1 mi (1.6 km) east of the A1(M) motorway. It has a smaller village nearby called Little Fencote. Kirkby Fleetham lies to the north. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Kirkby Fleetham Hall

Kirkby Fleetham Hall is a historic building in Kirkby Fleetham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor of Kirkby Fleetham descended through the Stapleton family, then the Melthams, who sold it in 1600 to the Smelt family, with owners including Leonard Smelt. The property was bought in the 1720s by John Aislabie, MP for Ripon and Chancellor of the Exchequer, for his son William Aislabie, also MP for Ripon. The present house was built in the mid-1700s by William for his daughter, Ann Sophie, who had married William Lawrence. Subsequently, it was left by William's granddaughter, Sophia Elizabeth Lawrence, to her second-cousin once-removed, Harry Edmund Waller, thence to his son Edmund Waller VI, who sold it in 1889 to Edward Courage of the Courage brewing family. Since then much of the estate has been sold off. The hall has gone through several guises including hotel and "country retreat". It has been a family home since 2003 and in 2024 it was made available for a handful of exclusive weddings and events per year. It was grade II* listed in 1966. The country house is built of rendered stone with stone dressings and hipped roofs of stone slate and lead. The main range has two storeys, a basement and attics, and seven bays, to the left is a link wall and a one-storey pavilion, and to the right is a single-storey three-bay wing. The main range has a sill band, the middle five bays have a cornice and a blocking course, and the outer bays project under pediments with moulded cornices. Steps lead up to a central doorway with an architrave, a Doric surround, a frieze and a cornice. In the ground floor of the outer bays are Venetian windows, and the other windows on the front are sashes, the window above the doorway tripartite. In the attic are five dormers with sashes. On the pavilion is a domed cupola with a bell. The north front has eleven bays, the outer three bays on each side projecting and bowed. Inside, the servants' staircase dates from about 1785, while the main staircase is 19th century. There are some early doorcases and cornices, and the dining room has a Neoclassical fireplace.

St Mary's Church, Kirkby Fleetham

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Kirkby Fleetham, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first church on the site was built in the Viking period. It was rebuilt in stone in the 12th century, from which period the south doorway survives. The nave and south chapel date from the 13th century, while the north aisle and west tower were added in the 15th century. The church was largely rebuilt in 1871, to a design by Henry Woodyer. The building was grade II* listed in 1966. The church is built of stone and has roofs of lead and Welsh slate. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, a north aisle, a south porch, a south chapel, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a south stair turret, bands, two-light bell openings, and an embattled parapet. There is also an embattled parapet along the nave. The south doorway is Norman and round-arched, with one order and zigzag decoration. Inside is a Norman font, which has been reworked, an effigy of Nicholas Stapleton, who died in 1290, and a monument to William Lawrence, carved in 1785 by John Flaxman.

Little Fencote

Little Fencote is a small village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated near Great Fencote and Kirkby Fleetham, about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of the A1(M) motorway. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.