Skipwith
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Skipwith is a village and civil parish about Script error: No such module "convert". north-east of Selby and Script error: No such module "convert". south-east of York in North Yorkshire, England. It was historically in the East Riding of Yorkshire.[1] After the 1974 local government reorganisation Skipwith was in the Selby District of the shire county of North Yorkshire. In 2023 the district was abolished and North Yorkshire became a unitary authority.
Manor
The Domesday Book records that by 1086 Robert de Stutville held a carucate of land at Skipwith.[2] His family held a manor here until 1229, when it passed to Hugh Wake by his marriage to Joan de Stutville.[2] In 1325 it passed to Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent by his marriage to Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell.[2] It remained with his heirs until 1418,[2] a decade after their line became extinct with the death of Edmund Holland, 4th Earl of Kent in 1408.[2]
Churches
Church of England
The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Helen are Saxon. The west tower began as a porch, but in the 11th century upper stages were added to turn it into a tower.[3] The tower is linked with the nave by a characteristic Saxon plain Romanesque round arch,[3] so the nave must also have originally been Saxon.
A Norman north aisle of two bays was added to the nave in about 1190, linked with the nave by an arcade of pointed arches.[3] This was followed by the south aisle, whose arcade has octagonal columns.[3] The nave and aisles were then extended eastwards with the addition of a third bay.[3]
The present chancel was built about 1300.[4] It is lofty and has large, square-headed windows with Decorated Gothic tracery.[4] The chancel windows were glazed with medieval stained glass, fragments of which survive.[3]
In the 15th century the tower was raised again with the addition of a new bell-stage above the 11th-century Saxon one.[3] In the 16th century, possibly after the English Reformation, a clerestory was added to the nave and new square-headed windows were inserted in the north aisle.[3]
In 1821–22 the Gothic Revival south porch was added,[5] and in 1877 the church was carefully restored under the direction of John Loughborough Pearson.[3] Notably, the south door was replaced but re-using its original 13th-century ironwork.[3] St Helen's is now a Grade I listed building.[5]
St Helen's parish is now part of a joint benefice with the parish of Bubwith with Ellerton and Aughton.[6]
Methodist
Two families in Skipwith were Methodists by 1764.[2] The village's Methodists worshipped in each other's homes until 1833, when a Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built.[2] In the 1860s the Vicar of St Helen's claimed that 300 or 400 of the villagers were Methodists.[2] In 1876 the first chapel was replaced with a larger brick one next to the parish school.[2]
The chapel is now Skipwith Methodist Church.[2] It is a member of the Goole and Selby Methodist Circuit.[7]
Historic secular buildings
Skipwith Hall is early in the 18th century house of seven bays and two and a half storeys,[3] flanked by a three-bay wing on each side.[8] It is now a Grade II* listed building.[9]
A school and schoolmaster's house built in 1714,[8] founded and endowed by the bequest of a Dorothy Wilson.[2][10] In the 1851 its pupils included 11 boarders, and in the 1860s a separate classroom for girls was added.[2] In 1871 the school had 54 pupils but in 1872 this fell to only 30.[2] From the 1900s to the 1930s the school averaged 30–40 pupils, but in 1938 this had declined to 26.[2] In 1957 the school was closed and its pupils were transferred to Thorganby.[2] Since 1959 the school has served as the village hall.[2]
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Amenities
Skipwith has a public house, the Drovers Arms, which is now a gastropub.[12]
See also
References
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Sources and further reading
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