St Matthew's Church, Stalling Busk
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St Matthew's Church, Stalling Busk is a
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parish church in the
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Stalling Busk Stalling Busk is one of three settlements around Semer Water in the county of North Yorkshire in the small dale of Raydale just off from Wensleydale, England. The village lies to the immediate south of the lake, at above sea level. The name of ...
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History

The church was commissioned by the Rev Frederick Squibb in 1906, to replace the seventeenth-century Old St Matthew's Church. Building work started in 1908 and the church was dedicated in October 1909. The architect was Thomas Gerard Davidson and the church is built in an
Arts and Crafts The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the Decorative arts, decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and ...
style.The Buildings of England. Yorkshire The North Riding. Nikolaus Pevsner. Penguin Group. p.69


Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with * St Oswald's Church, Askrigg * St Margaret's Church, Hawes *
St Mary and St John's Church, Hardraw St Mary and St John's Church, Hardraw (also Hardrow) is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Hardraw, North Yorkshire. History The church was built in 1879–1880 to designs by the architect Richard Herbert Carpenter an ...


See also

* Listed buildings in Bainbridge, North Yorkshire


References

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