Bainton is a village and
civil parish
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in the
East Riding of Yorkshire
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, England. It is situated approximately south-west of
Driffield
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on the
A614 road.
According to the
2011 UK census
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, Bainton parish had a population of 334,
an increase on the
2001 UK census
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figure of 282.
[
] The parish covers an area of .
Bainton was served by
Bainton railway station on the
Selby to Driffield Line
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The town was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until ...
between 1890 and 1954.
Bainton
Grade I
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listed
Anglican
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church is dedicated to
St Andrew
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.
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'' noted that the church was totally rebuilt in the 1330s or 1340s by the rector William de Brocklesby, except for the south-west corner of the
chancel
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with its priest's doorway, which are . Until 1715 the tower supported a spire. The
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is
Norman
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, and the pews 18th century. A tomb to Sir Edmund de Mauley lies in the south
aisle
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, died at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314]. The tomb has an ogee canopy, crocketed gable and flying angels holding the soul of Sir Edmund in a napkin. There is also a Monumental brass, brass to Roger Godeale, died 1429.
in 1866. The church's listed rectory, south of the church, is of late
period. According to ''Pevsner'' a local tradition connects the rectory's