Church of All Saints, Great Ayton

The Church of All Saints is a grade I listed building and former parish church for Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England. The churchyard is known to contain several graves to family members of Captain Cook, a noted seafarer. All Saints was replaced as the main parish church in the 1870s by Christ Church, Great Ayton. The entire western end of the church, including its tower, was removed in 1880. All Saints is still open for people to be able to visit at certain times of the year.

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Ayton Hall

Ayton Hall is a historic building in Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The hall was first recorded in the 1280s, when it was owned by the Earl of Westmorland. The current house was built in about 1690, and it was altered and extended over the ensuing centuries. Much of the interior dates from the 18th and 19th centuries. In the late 20th century, the hall served as a hotel. It was grade II* listed in 1966. The hall has rendered walls, a stone plinth, a deep eaves cornice, and pantile roofs with stone copings and kneelers; the roofs on the wings are hipped with ball finials. There are two storeys and a U-shaped plan, consisting of a main range of four bays, projecting single-bay wings, and a rear wing. In the centre is a doorway with pilasters, impost blocks, a radial fanlight, and an archivolt with a keystone on consoles. The windows are sashes with keystones. The rear wing is in brick and stone and has two storeys and four wide bays. It contains a doorway with a chamfered surround, and door with a flattened Tudor arched head.

Christ Church, Great Ayton

Christ Church is the parish church of Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. From the Saxon period to the early 19th century, All Saints' Church, Great Ayton was the local parish church. Between 1876 and 1877, a replacement was built on a new site, with All Saints becoming a mortuary chapel. It was designed by John Ross and Robert Lamb, in a 14th-century Gothic style. Nikolaus Pevsner describes the building as "restless composition, and an uninteresting interior". It was grade II listed in 1966. The church is built of sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, and is in Decorated style. It has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave, a west narthex, north and south aisles, a south porch, a north transept steeple, and a chancel. The steeple has a tower with two stages, angle buttresses, traceried bell openings, and a broach spire with bands of red sandstone and lucarnes. Inside are preserved three pre-Conquest stones, brought from All Saints.

St Margaret Clitherow's Church, Great Ayton

St Margaret Clitherow's Church is a Catholic church in Great Ayton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the 1960s, Catholics in Great Ayton worshipped at St Joseph's Church, Stokesley. In 1966, a Sunday mass was instituted in the ambulance station in the village. In 1970, a purpose-built timber-framed church was opened on Race Terrace, and in 1971 it was dedicated to Margaret Clitherow, becoming the first church in the world dedicated to the recently canonised saint. In 2002, part of the church was demolished, and a new octagonal building was constructed, the remainder of the old building being retained as a church hall. The new church was designed by DKS Architects and is in red brick with stone details, and a grey tile roof. Two stained glass windows were installed, with designs by Kyme Studios.

Great Ayton

Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The River Leven (a tributary of the River Tees) flows through the village, which lies just north of the North York Moors. According to the 2021 Census, the parish has a population of 4,346.