Monk Fryston Methodist Church

Monk Fryston Methodist Church is a historic building in Monk Fryston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was constructed in 1845, for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, with a hexagonal plan. It originally had a capacity of 236 worshippers, and 160 pupils in the schoolroom underneath. As of 1851, the church had an average of 265 worshippers across three services each Sunday. It was extended in 1875, with wings added on both sides, the space including a new schoolroom. In 1986, the building was grade II listed. Early in the 21st century, it was converted into two houses. The church is built of magnesian limestone on a plinth, with quoins, a modillion eaves band and a Welsh slate roof. There is a single tall storey, and a two-bay pedimented centre with single-bay flanking wings. In the centre is a pedimented porch with a round-arched doorway and a radial fanlight. It is flanked by narrow round-arched sash windows with keystones, and above is an oculus with keystones, and a ball finial on the apex. The wings contain round-headed sash windows.

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Monk Fryston

Monk Fryston is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Selby, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Monk Fryston Hall

Monk Fryston Hall is a Grade II* listed country house standing in 66 acres of parkland in Monk Fryston, Selby, North Yorkshire, England. The hall was originally built for Selby Abbey in the 13th century in Magnesian Limestone with a stone slate roof. It was heavily restored c.1740, altered again in 1897 and an additional range added in the 20th century. Monk Fryston was bought in 1680 by the Hemsworth family and the family occupied the hall for several generations. In 1946 it was sold to an S. W. Tinsdale who converted the hall to an hotel, selling it on in 1954 to the 10th Duke of Rutland. After changing hands twice since then it is was being run as a hotel known as Monk Fryston Hall Hotel. This business went into administration on 16 September 2022.

St Wilfrid's Church, Monk Fryston

St Wilfrid's Church is the parish church of Monk Fryston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the Saxon period, probably in the early 11th century, from which era the lower part of the tower survives. The rest of the church was rebuilt in the 13th century, while the upper part of the tower dates from the 14th century, as does the clerestory. The choir was restored by Thomas Edmunds in 1685. The whole church was restored from 1889 to 1891 by Robert J. Johnson at a cost of £7,000. The work included the addition of a vestry, and the replacement of most of the stained glass. The building was grade I listed in 1967. In the mediaeval period, the church was dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, but it is now dedicated to Saint Wilfrid. In 1970, a church hall was added, to a design by George Pace and Ronald Sims. The church roof was replaced in 2013. The church is built of magnesian limestone, with roofs of stone slate and lead, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a south vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a two-light west window, a floor band, two corbel tables, two-light round-headed bell openings, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. The north aisle is also embattled, and at the east end is a three-light straight-headed Perpendicular window. Inside, there is a piscina, two 17th-century wall tablets, a 13th-century square stone font with a wooden cover dating from 1669, a communion rail from 1664, and several stained glass windows designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Prebendal House

Prebendal House is a historic building in Monk Fryston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed in about 1425, and it has been extensively altered over the centuries. It was grade II* listed in 1967. It is built of roughcast magnesian limestone with a roof of stone slate, and pantile at the rear, with stone kneelers and copings. It has two storeys and three bays. The central doorway is pointed and has a double-chamfered surround. The windows are mullioned and transomed, and above is a raking dormer with a horizontally-sliding sash window. Inside, there is some 19th-century panelling, and a crown post roof.