Built in 1873 by G. Fowler Jones for a cost of £1,300. St Wilfrid is a very traditional church with its tower over the porch, housing three bells and plenty of birds’ nests. The bells are marked “John Taylor & Co. Founders. 1874.”
The remains of a find old boundary cross stands in the church-yard. Other sources say it is the stump of a pre-conquest cross.
Just inside the door is the top cover of the tomb of a cleric dating from the 12th century. The organ, a fine pipe model with tracker action, is in what is supposed to be the remains of a 13th century chancel arch from the original church. A 17th century font is in the churchyard but its original base remains in the church.
Wilfrid (originally spelled Wilfrith; c. 633 – c. 709) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon. In 664 Wilfrid acted as spokesman for the Roman position at the Synod of Whitby, and became famous for his speech advocating that the Roman method for calculating the date of Easter should be adopted. His success prompted the king's son, Alhfrith, to appoint him Bishop of Northumbria.
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