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11 unusual facts about St Wilfrid


Church of Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead

The architect was Joseph Goldie (1882–1953) who was the son of Edward Goldie (1856-1921), an architect, and grandson of George Goldie (1828-1887) a notable church architect in the 19th century who designed St Wilfrid's Church in York and the Church of St Mary and St Augustine in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

The 20th-century stained glass consists of a 1969 window by Carl Edwards, commemorating women and featuring an image of the now demolished All Saints Cathedral in Cairo, and a 1982 piece by Michael Farrar-Bell which portrays the nature reserve at Pagham Harbour and its animals and birds.

According to Edward Heron-Allen a meeting was held in the vestry of the old church, on 1 July 1864, with eight people and the rector in attendance.

Eddi's Service, from the 1910 book Rewards and Fairies, describes how Eddi the priest was determined to celebrate Midnight Mass one stormy Christmas Eve despite no parishioners attending.

St Wilfrid's Church, Brighton

Elm Grove, a steep road running from central Brighton eastwards to Brighton Racecourse on Race Hill, was laid out in the 1850s.

St Wilfrid's Church, Halton

St Wilfrid's Church, Halton, Leeds, a 20th-century church in West Yorkshire, England

St Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton

A local legend has arisen which suggests they are the skulls of three sheep rustlers, hanged at nearby High Melton, but it is more likely that they were obtained by Lord Halifax to serve as a memento mori.

St Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley

According to the church's website, the organ was moved from Manchester's Free Trade Hall and had been the property of Sir Charles Hallé.

St Wilfrid's Church, Scrooby

Scrooby harboured a Separatist Puritan group, 1606-8, which fled to Holland in 1608 and then in 1620 sailed to America in the Mayflower.

St Wilfrid's Church, Wilford

The church contains two memorials to the Nottingham poet Henry Kirke White who drew much of his inspiration from Wilford and Clifton.

St Wilfrid's, York

The Mission was founded by the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District of England, Edward Dicconson.


Archdeacon of Chichester

The post of Archdeacon of Chichester was created in the 12th century, although the Diocese of Sussex was founded by St Wilfrid, the exiled Bishop of York, in AD 681.

Davenham

Legend says that the church was founded by St Wilfrid on a journey through Cheshire in the 7th Century, but the first documented evidence of a church on the site is an existing priest and church in 1086.

The church of St. Wilfrid goes back to the Domesday period but the current edifice is the fourth on the site, dating from a major reconstruction between 1844 and 1870 in the Victorian Gothic revival style.

Halton, Leeds

St Wilfrid's Church in Halton is a grade II* listed church built in 1939 at a cost of £11,700 and designed by A. Randall Wells.

Kirkby-in-Ashfield

It is mentioned in the Domesday Book and has two main churches, St Wilfrid's, a Norman church, which was gutted by fire 6 January 1907 but quickly re-built to its former glory and St Thomas's built in the early 1910s in neo-gothic style.

St John and St Mary Magdalene Church, Goldthorpe

The church is joined in pastoral care with St. Wilfrid's Church, Hickleton.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke

The Trust administers five former churches in West Sussex; the others are at Chichester, Church Norton, Tortington and Warminghurst.

St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath

The parish of St Richard was created in 1939 from parts of the parishes of Cuckfield, Lindfield and St Wilfrid's Church.

The present reinforced concrete and brick structure replaced a temporary building which was a daughter church to Haywards Heath's parish church, St Wilfrid's; the new church soon became parished in its own right to reflect the rapid population growth in the northern part of the town.