St Gregory's Church, Cropton

St Gregory's Church is the parish church of Cropton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

There was a Mediaeval church in Cropton, which burned down in about 1840.^[1] Rebuilding took place between 1844 and 1855,^[2] to a design by J. B. and W. Atkinson, in the Norman Revival style.^[1]^[3] It was long a chapel of ease to St Andrew's Church, Middleton, but in 1986 it was given its own parish.^[2] The church has been grade II listed since 1953.^[1]

The church is built of limestone on a plinth, with a slate roof. It consists of a nave and a chancel with a polygonal apse in one unit, a south porch and a north vestry. On the west gable is a gabled bellcote containing two round-arched openings with moulded surrounds, a centre shaft with a scalloped capital, and a coved hood mould. The windows have round-arched heads, quoins, and coved hood moulds. Inside the church is a 12th-century font.^[1]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Historic England. "Church of St Gregory (1281522)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ ^a ^b "Cropton - St Gregory's". The Lastingham Benefice. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2. London: Victoria County History. 1923. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.