All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the parish of Spofforth and

Kirk Deighton Kirk Deighton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated north-west of Wetherby, to which it is contiguous, and near the A1(M). The village was in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and Wethe ...

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, England. The church dates from the 11th century and is Grade I

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History

A church in ''Dicton'' is mentioned in the ''

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manus ...

'' of 1086. The church is, at the highest point in the village, is on the site of the original church's

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

and has since been extended and rebuilt. The oldest stonework dates from between the 12th and 14th centuries and restoration was undertaken in 1849. The stained-glass is Victorian. Patronage of the church was held by the Roos family of Ingmanthorpe until the

Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

when it passed to other families until 1794 when it was purchased by James Geldart, who the following year became

Bishop of Ripon The Bishop of Ripon is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The bishop is one of the area bishops of the Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York. The area bishop of Ripon has oversight o ...

. In 1971 the parishes of Spofforth, Kirk Deighton, Follifoot and Little Ribston were merged to form the Parish of Spofforth and Kirk Deighton in the

Diocese of Ripon and Leeds The Diocese of Ripon (Diocese of Ripon and Leeds from 1999 until 2014) was a former Church of England diocese, part of the Province of York. Immediately prior to its dissolution, it covered an area in western and northern Yorkshire as well as ...

Buildings

The church has a west tower with corner pinnacles and gargoyles and has an octagonal

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100 feet (30.5 metres) tall.

References

External links

A Church Near You - Kirk DeightonParish of Spofforth and Kirk Deighton - Kirk Deighton
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Kirk Deighton, All Saints' Parish Church

History

Buildings

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