St Aidan's Church is the parish church of

Hellifield Hellifield is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England (). Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village was once an important railway junction on the Settle-Carlisle Railway between ...

, a village in

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, in England. Until the 20th century, Hellifield was in the parish of St Mary's Church, Long Preston. The church was designed by John Wreghitt Connon and Harry Sutton Chorley, and was constructed from 1905 to 1906. It is in the Neo Tudor style, and

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describes it as "a successful design of its kind". It was

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in 1987. In 2016, £8,000 was spent on removing the choir stalls and front two pews, to create a more flexible space, a carpeted platform with oak chairs. The church is built of

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with a

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roof, and consists of a

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, a north porch, a

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with a north

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, and a north tower. The tower has three stages, in the bottom stage is a three-light window with a pointed head, the second stage is recessed behind a splayed water table, and contains a

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, a clock face, and large bell openings with pointed head, and at the top is

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hellifield, St Aidan Churches completed in 1906 Church of England church buildings in North Yorkshire Grade II listed churches in North Yorkshire Hellifield Churches in Craven, Yorkshire

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