Foxholes is a village in the
Ryedale district of
North Yorkshire, England, part of the
civil parish of Foxholes with
Butterwick. It lies where the
B1249 road crosses the
Great Wold Valley, south from
Scarborough, north-west from
Bridlington, and north-east from
Sledmere. The course of the
winterbourne stream the
Gypsey Race passes to the south of the village.
Until 1974 the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the
East Riding of Yorkshire.
Foxhole's
Grade II
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listed
Anglican
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church is dedicated to
St Mary
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, and is an 1866 limestone and sandstone construction by
George Fowler Jones ''Pevsner'' describes this neo-
Norman church as: "one of the ugliest in the Riding... The north pier's are grotesque, with their undersized shafts on their over-high bases and their big square foliage capitals... Font: obstrusively Norman". He also notes several windows by
Capronnier, and a 1720 cup by William Gamble.
References
External links
"Foxholes: Geographical and Historical information from the year 1892. (Bulmers')" Genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 16 April 2012
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Villages in North Yorkshire
Civil parishes in North Yorkshire
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