St Mary's Church, Foxholes

St Mary's Church is a closed Anglican church in Foxholes, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A church was built in Foxholes in the Norman period. It was restored or rebuilt in about 1777. In 1848, it was described as "an ancient structure, consisting of a nave and chancel separated by a fine Norman arch". In 1866, the church was entirely rebuilt by George Fowler Jones, in the Neo-Norman style. It was grade II listed in 1966. The church is built of sandstone with limestone dressings, some Mansfield stone, and a slate roof. It consists of a nave, a north aisle, an apsidal chancel, a vestry, and a southwest tower. The tower has four stages, string courses, lancet windows and roundels, and round-headed bell openings, above which is a scalloped cornice and a pyramidal roof with a weathercock. The porch is gabled, and contains a round arch with nailhead moulding, shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, an impost band and a hood mould. The stained glass in the windows of the apse was designed by Jean-Baptiste Capronnier.

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Foxholes, North Yorkshire

Foxholes is a village in North Yorkshire, England, part of the civil parish of Foxholes with Butterwick. It lies where the B1249 road crosses the Great Wold Valley, 9 miles (14.5 km) south from Scarborough, 11 miles (17.7 km) north-west from Bridlington, and 7 miles (11.3 km) north-east from Sledmere. The course of the winterbourne stream the Gypsey Race passes to the south of the village. Until 1974, the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the East Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Ryedale district. St Mary's Church, Foxholes is a Grade II listed former Anglican church, an 1866 limestone and sandstone construction by George Fowler Jones Pevsner describes this neo-Norman church as: "one of the ugliest in the Riding... The north aisle piers are grotesque, with their undersized shafts on their over-high bases and their big square foliage capitals... FONT. Obtrusively Norman". He also notes several windows by Capronnier, and a 1720 cup by William Gamble.

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Wold Newton Hoard

The Wold Newton Hoard is a coin hoard dating from the early 4th century AD. It contains 1,857 coins held within a pottery container. It was acquired by the Yorkshire Museum in 2016.

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St Nicholas' Church, Butterwick

St Nicholas' Church is an Anglican church in Butterwick, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was first mentioned in about 1130, at which time it was a chapel of ease of St Mary's Church, Foxholes. Most of the chapel was rebuilt in the 14th century, with only the walls of the western part of the building surviving from the older church. A bellcote was added in the late 18th century, and the church was restored from 1882 to 1883 by G. Fowler Jones. He extended the building, and added a porch. The church was grade II* listed in 1966. The church is built in sandstone with some red brick, and has a slate roof. It consists of a nave and a chancel in one unit, and a south porch, with a bellcote on the west gable. The bellcote is gabled and contains two round arched openings and has a cross finial. The porch has a Tudor arched doorway and a scalloped bargeboard. Inside, there is a 12th-century drum font, a piscina and aumbry, a late 13th century graveslab, and an early 14th century effigy, believed to be of Robert FitzRalph.

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Butterwick, Foxholes

Butterwick is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Foxholes (1.75 miles (2.8 km) to the east, near the village of Weaverthorpe (2 miles (3.2 km) to the west), in North Yorkshire, England. The village lies in the Great Wold Valley and the course of the winterbourne stream the Gypsey Race passes through it. Until 1974 the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was part of the Ryedale district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council.

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