Home

City of York
West Yorkshire
Yorkshire Dales
South Yorkshire
North Yorkshire
Yorkshire Coast
Howardian Hills AONB
Nidderdale AONB
North York Moors
East Yorkshire
Teesdale


Yorkshire Dales

Yorkshire Dales
Appletreewick
Arncliffe
Askrigg
Aysgarth Falls
Bolton Abbey
Bolton Abbey Village
Bolton Castle
Buckden
Burnsall
Catrigg Force
Clapham
Cote Gill Waterfall
Forbidden Corner
Gaping Gill
Gordale Scar
Grassington
Hardraw Force
Hawes
Horton in
Ribblesdale

Hubberholme
Ingleborough Cave
Ingleton
Ingleton Waterfalls
Janet's Foss
Kettlewell
Kilnsey
Kirkby Malham
Linton
Malham
Malham Cove
Malham Tarn
Muker
Muker Meadows
Pen-y-Ghent
Reeth
Settle
Snaizeholme Red
Squirrel Trail

Stainforth Force
West Burton
West Witton
Whernside
White Scar Cave



St. Andrew's Church, Aysgarth


OS grid reference:- SE 004 883

St. Andrew's Church at Aysgarth, located on the south side of the River Ure, was largely rebuilt in 1536 and restored in 1866. IOt is quite a large building and consists of a chancel, a nave with aisles, and a Lady chapel. The church once boasted the stone head of a century Saxon cross which dated to the tenth century but this was stolen in 1996. It is uncertain whether this imlies that a church occupied the site at that date or merely a local preaching place.

Aysgarth ChurchSt. Andrew's Church, Aysgarth

The churchyard is reputed to be the largest in the country at four acres. A fourteenth century stone coffin lid is positioned above the south-east doorway. It is engraved with a hunting horn and was probably for a verderer or forester of Wensleydale.

Aysgarth ChurchSt. Andrew's Church, Aysgarth

Aysgarth Church contains fittings saved from Jervaulx Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries, including the great Rood Screen and the Abbot's Stall. The brightly coloured ornate screen, a rare survival, was said to have been carried from Jervaulx Abbey by 20 men. It was once positioned between the chancel and the nave but now adjoins the Lady Chapel. The Vicar's stall contains only parts of that belonging to the old Abbots, but there are exquisite poppy-headed benchends, one bearing the hazel bush and barrel (or tun) rebus of Abbot William Heslington. Both were made by the Ripon School of carvers.

Aysgarth ChurchSt. Andrew's Church, Aysgarth

The church also has a superb ornate reredos of Caen stone with a carving of the Last Supper. There are many interesting stained glass windows and the ones above the reredos are particularly magnificent.

Aysgarth ChurchSt. Andrew's Church, Aysgarth

Parking is available adjacent to the church in the Pay & Display Car Park.

Images courtesy of Paul Johnson

Abbeys and Churches