St Peter's Church, Birkby

St Peter's Church is the parish church of Birkby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. St Peter's Church was first built in the 12th century. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1776, and in 1872 the arched windows were replaced by Gothic windows, and a porch and bellcote were added. Two vestries were added in 1888 by C. Hodgson Fowler. It was Grade II listed in 1970. The church is built of brick, with stone dressings, and a stone slate roof. It consists of a three-bay nave with south porch and a single-bay chancel. At the west end is a bellcote with two pointed-arched bell openings, and a round-headed arch above. The porch contains a doorway with a pointed arch and a chamfered surround, diagonal buttresses, and it has a coped gable with a cross. Inside, the oak benches date from the 17th century. A piece of an 11th-century cross shaft is set into the west wall, while a carved capital of about 1160 was found under the floor, having at some point served as a baptismal font.

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Birkby, North Yorkshire

Birkby is a village and civil parish about 6 miles north of the county town of Northallerton in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the parish was estimated at 40 in 2016.

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Cowton railway station is a disused station on the East Coast Main Line, it is situated in North Yorkshire, England. The station is situated around 1⁄2 mile (0.8 km) east of the village of East Cowton. Several of the railway buildings have survived the closure of the station and were Grade II listed in 1987. They are presently used as residential properties.

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Hutton Bonville

Hutton Bonville is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Danby Wiske with Lazenby. It is on its own road and near the A167, 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Northallerton. In the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) John Marius Wilson described Hutton Bonville: HUTTON-BONVILLE, a chapelry in Birkby parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the river Wiske and the Northeastern railway, 3 miles SSE of Cowton r. station, and 4 NNW of Northallerton. It contains the village of Lovesome-Hill, and its post town is Northallerton. Acres, 1, 080. Rea property, £1, 776. Pop., 129. Houses, 22. Hutton-Bonville Hall is a chief residence. The place is a meet for the Bedale hounds. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of York. Value, £53. Patron, Mrs. M. A. Pierse. The church is good, and has a bellturret. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. When Nikolaus Pevsner visited the hamlet in the early 1960s, to write the entry for his Yorkshire: The North Riding volume of the Buildings of England, he described the estate church of St Lawrence as "away from anywhere except the decaying Hall". The Hall was demolished in the 1960s, although the gate piers at the start of the drive remain and are a Grade II listed structure. St Lawrence's was declared redundant in 2007. It is now in the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.

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Little Smeaton, Hambleton

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