St John's Church, Sharow

St John's Church is the parish church of Sharow, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in 1825, to a design by George Knowles. A chancel was added to the church between 1873 and 1874, with side chapels and a vestry following soon after. The east window of the original structure was moved to the new chancel. The building was grade II listed in 1966.

The church is built of stone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel with a south chapel and a north organ and vestry, and a west tower. The tower has four stages, corner buttresses, a trefoil-headed window in the third stage and three-light trefoil headed bell openings, all with hood moulds, and an embattled parapet. The nave also has an embattled parapet. Inside, the nave has a timber roof embossed with gold, while the chancel has a tiled floor, and the original choir stalls. The east window contains glass painted by George Hedgeland. The nave has a marble memorial to Knowles, with a carving of a broken bridge and a weeping willow tree.

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Sharow

Sharow is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east of Ripon. The name Sharow derives from the Old English of 'Scearu' and 'Hōh' which translates as boundary hill-spur or a share/division of a sharply projecting piece of land. In the 2001 Census, the village was registered as having a population of 546, which had risen slightly to 556 at the 2011 Census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to have dropped to 540. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The village has a Church of England primary school which was rated as 'Good' by Ofsted in 2016 after previously being listed as 'Requires Improvement' in 2014. St John's Church, Sharow gained Eco-Status in 2017, the fifth one in the Diocese of Leeds to be awarded such status. The church's 2-acre (0.81 ha) churchyard has been managed effectively since 1992 and now is home to a selection of rare plant life, animals and insects. The church hit the headlines in June 2011 when a group of bellringers from Oxfordshire were locked in the church's tower by an irate local due to the noise they were creating. The group were released when a passer-by was alerted to their predicament. The village has a pub (The Half Moon – now closed), Sharow Hall (which is not open to the public) and the remains of Sharow Cross, a sanctuary cross which signified that the traveller was within 1 mile (1.6 km) of the monastery in Ripon and therefore granted sanctuary. The cross is now a grade II* listed structure, and is one of the trail heads for the Sanctuary Way Walk. During the 19th century, the Archbishop of York was the lord of the manor. Sharow currently has three Saturday cricket teams that play in the Nidderdale Amateur Cricket League. The teams play in the 2nd, 6th and 9th divisions, there are also two Wednesday evening teams who play in the Nidderdale Amateur Evening League and the Harrogate and District Evening League Division 7.

Sharow Cross

The Sharow Cross is a historic structure in Sharow, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Perhaps in the 13th century, eight sanctuary crosses were erected, one alongside each route leading into Ripon, one mile from Ripon Minster. They marked the boundary of the area of sanctuary, which could be claimed by anyone touching one of the crosses. The other seven have been lost, but part of the Sharow Cross survives. It is owned by the National Trust, and has been grade II* listed since 1967. The cross is constructed of limestone, and consists of a base about 80 centimetres (31 in) by 60 centimetres (24 in), and about 30 centimetres (12 in) in height. The lower part of the cross is set into a cavity in the block, and rises to a height of about 40 centimetres (16 in). The base stands on a stone foundation.

Ure Viaduct

Ure Viaduct (also known as Ripon Viaduct) was a railway bridge that crossed the River Ure to the north-east of the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The first viaduct on the site was constructed of timber and opened in 1848. This was replaced in 1869 with a cast iron structure which was closed in 1969, and was then demolished in 1972.

Ripon railway station

Ripon railway station was a railway station that served Ripon, North Yorkshire, England on the Leeds-Northallerton Line that ran between Harrogate and Northallerton. The station opened to goods traffic from Thirsk in January 1848, and then to passengers in June of the same year. Passenger workings to the south to Wormald Green and beyond did not start until September 1848. The station was closed to passengers in 1967, and then closed completely in 1969.