St Andrews Parish Church at Aysgarth

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St Andrews Parish Church at Aysgarth
St Andrews Parish Church at Aysgarth

The attractive medieval church of St Andrew stands above the River Ure in the Yorkshire Dales beauty spot of Aysgarth. it has the largest churchyard in England, covering an area of over four acres. This beautiful medieval building is known for its stunning medieval chancel screen, brought here from Jervaulx Abbey when the abbey was suppressed by Henry VIII.

There has been a place of worship in this location since at least the 10th century. In 1968 the vicar's son was playing near the churchyard and discovered a 10th-century cross head embedded in a nearby stone wall. The cross may have been a preaching cross, with travelling priests meeting there to preach, or it may have stood outside a Saxon church. Sadly, the cross-head was stolen in 1996 and never rediscovered.

There was a church here in the 12th century when it was the mother church of a chapel of ease at Askrigg. The first recorded rector of Aysgarth was Peter de Thoresby, appointed in 1236. Thoresby's descendant became Archbishop of York in 1354.

The Norman church was rebuilt in 1536 but by the Victorian period it was in a poor state. It had to be completely restored in 1866, giving it a decidedly Gothic revival air. Despite the sweeping Victorian changes the church retains some remarkable historical features.

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