St Hilda, Chop Gate
St Hilda, Chop Gate
St Hilda’s is a Grade II parish church of Bilsdale Priory, set on the roadside between Urra and Seave Green near Chop Gate in the North York Moors, in the Diocese of York.
- Location
- Chop Gate, Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Yorkshire
- City / town
- Chop Gate
- Address
- Chop Gate, Yorkshire, TS9 7HY
- Postcode
- TS9 7HY
- Built
- 1851, replacing a church founded 1122 and partly rebuilt 1813
- Architect
- Robert Richardson Banks and Charles Barry Jr
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Hilda
- Diocese
- York
- Parish
- Bilsdale Priory St Hilda
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Lancet / Early English
- Materials
- Snecked rock-faced sandstone with clay-tile roof, fishscale bands and stone copings
- Grid reference
- NZ 565 007
- Opening hours
- A key is held locally. Please contact Carol McGee, Churchwarden on 01642 778217.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Non-accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of 1851 by Banks and Barry: snecked rock-faced sandstone with a clay-tile roof of fishscale bands and a spiky tiled ridge, overlapped stone copings and a stone spirelet. The plan is a five-bay nave, two-bay chancel, south porch and north vestry, in lancet style, with a west double bellcote under a short spire. The interior is plastered, with an arch-braced timber roof and a multi-moulded chancel arch with dogtooth.
Wikipedia and the Bilsdale Midcable parish history record a first church founded by William Espec (or L’Espec) in 1122 and granted to Kirkham Priory. An inscribed stone found during repairs in 1813, now set above the porch, translates as “Lord William builds this church in honour of the chaste virgin St Hilda.” The 1813 church was replaced in 1851 by the present building, designed by Robert Richardson Banks and Charles Barry Jr. The parish is now part of the United Benefice with Ingleby Greenhow, Kildale and Kirkby-in-Cleveland.