St Chad's Church, Kirkbymoorside

St Chad's Church is a Catholic church in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. Catholics began worshipping in Kirkbymoorside in 1859, when a prior of Ampleforth Abbey began saying Mass in a house. In 1867, a joiners' shop on Tinley Garth was converted into a church, and from 1877 it also served as a school. In 1896, William Duncombe, 1st Earl of Feversham, donated land for a new church, which was designed by Bernard Smith in the neo-Gothic style, and opened in June 1897. It is dedicated both to Saint Chad and to Our Lady. In 1902, a stone priest's house was added at the east end. The church continued to be served from Ampleforth Abbey for many years, and was not consecrated until 1947. The church is built of stone, with a slate roof. It consists of a nave, a chancel, a sacristy and a south porch, and it has a bellcote at the west end. The windows are lancets, tripled at the west end and in the south chancel wall. The walls are divided into bays by stepped buttresses. The stone altar was installed in 1947, when the reredos was made using panels from the old altar, a 17th-century wooden design, brought from Gilling Castle. The reredos was redesigned in 1967, still incorporating the old panels. The benches were designed by Robert Thompson's workshop, and were installed in the 1960s.

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The Old Windmill, Kirkbymoorside

The Old Windmill is a historic building in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The windmill was built in 1839, for G. Rivis, at a cost of £1,000. The Rivis family sold it in 1861, and in about 1875, its sails were removed. It was then given a pitched roof and powered by a paraffin engine. Later, it was converted into a house, and it was grade II listed in 1976. The windmill is built of red brick, it is tapering and has a circular plan. There are five storeys, in each floor are two pivot windows, and in the ground floor are two opposing plank doors. All the openings have cambered brick arches. The ground floor has a diameter of 20 feet (6.1 m), while the top floor has a diameter of 12 feet (3.7 m).

Kirbymoorside railway station

Kirbymoorside railway station served the market town of Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire, England from 1874 until 1964.

The Black Swan, Kirkbymoorside

The Black Swan is a historic pub in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building lies on the western side of the marketplace. It was originally constructed in 1632, as a hall house with a through passage, with the hall in the front section, and kitchens in the rear wing. It was later extended to the left, right and rear. It served as a coaching inn in the early 19th century, and as a pub for many years, although the right-hand section was divided later in the century to become a shop. It served as an Indian restaurant in the early 2010s before again becoming a pub. The building was grade II listed in 1955. The building has a timber framed core, encased in limestone, with extensions in whitewashed brick and stone, quoins, and a pantile roof with coped gables. It has two storeys and is four bays wide. On the front is a projecting two-storey open gabled porch with a dated and inscribed lintel, four carved posts, and an upstairs room with a row of four round-headed windows under bargeboards. To the right is a double shopfront, and the windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding. In the bar, there is an early fireplace with a built-in spice cupboard. The original king post roof also survives.

Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall

Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall is a historic building in Kirkbymoorside, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed as the town's tolbooth in about 1730, possibly on the site of an earlier incarnation. It originally had three storeys, but it suffered a major fire in 1871, and was rebuilt reduced to two storeys. In 1919, it was sold to a trust of townspeople. Plaques were placed on the hall in memory of local victims, and the building was renamed the "Memorial Hall". From the 1920s until the 1960s, it was partly used to house the Electric Cinema. The building was grade II listed in 1955. It is used as an events venue, and to host a weekly market. The hall is built of sandstone, with four giant rusticated pilasters on the front. floor bands, and a slate roof. It has two storeys, attics and a basement, and is five bays wide. Steps lead up to the central doorway that has a segmental head and a fanlight. The windows are sashes, those in the upper floor with wedge lintels. On the roof is a square turret with oval louvres in the sides, and a pagoda top. In the left gable wall is a doorway with an oriel window above.