the local citizens following the death of Colonel Wilkinson in 1941. A plaque to commemorate this was unveiled in March 2016. York College has its campus at the former Tollcross at the south-western edge of Dringhouses and caters for Sixth Form and Further Education in York. The college was built on the area previously occupied by Ashfield Secondary School, the nearby old York College of Arts & Technology being demolished for a new housing estate. Religion The Church of St Edward the Confessor is located on Tadcaster Road, opposite the junction with St Helen's Road, St Helen being the patron of previous chapels on the same site. Chantry certificates of 1546 and 1548 record the existence of a chapel of ease dedicated to St Helen in Dringhouses. This was replaced by a new chapel in 1725, of which some floor tiles remain in situ beside the present church. At the time it was within the parish of Holy Trinity, Micklegate, and was the only church within a city parish in York to have been rebuilt during the 18th century. The Church of St Edward was built in 1847-49 and received its own parish in 1853. It is a Grade II listed building and was designed by Vickers and Hugall of Pontefract. It was constructed of limestone with green slate roof-tiles, however the spire was replaced with a fibreglass replica in 1970. The church contains some woodwork carvings by Mousie Thompson. Parish records dating from 1824 are held at the Borthwick Institute in York. In the churchyard is a war memorial (Grade II listed) designed by Brierley and Rutherford in 1922, which lists the names of those who died in the World Wars. A Methodist chapel was built in Dringhouses in 1834 at the corner of Slingsby Grove and Tadcaster Road; Methodism having been introduced to the area in 1816. This was replaced in 1890 with a larger building, known as "Dringhouses Chapel", on the same site. This closed when the chapel was relocated to a new building in West Thorpe, which opened on 17 July 1954. Scouting Dringhouses Scout Group is one of the largest in York and North Yorkshire and is home to over 220 young people between the ages of 6 and 17 years old. The Beaver Scouts (6-8yrs) meet in three groups called Colonies, these are named 1st, 2nd and 3rd. The Cub Scouts (8-10½yrs) meet in