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St Helen's Chapel

Skelton on Ure, GB

St Helen's Chapel

St Helen's Church is a chapel in Skelton-on-Ure, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was an Anglican placed of worship in Skelton before 1750, a chapel-of-ease to what became Ripon Cathedral. In 1811, a new chapel was erected, in the Early English style. Later in the century, the buildin

g was used as a mortuary, but it returned to use for worship. The building was grade II listed in 1987. The chapel is built of limestone, and has a grey slate roof with stone gable coping and elaborate shaped kneelers. It has a rectangular plan and two bays. At the west end is a porch with a flattened segmental moulded arch and a hood mould, and a trefoil recess above. The west and east windows each have three pointed lights in a shallow pointed arch with a hood mould. On the west gable is a bellcote. Inside, there is a plaque commemorating Elizabeth Grakelt, who died in 1828, but no historic furnishings survive.

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