The Church of St Edith, Bishop Wilton, East Riding: A Sympathetic Nineteenth Century Restoration Allows an Interpretation of the Romanesque Sculpture
Rita Wood
The church at Bishop Wilton is a ‘Sykes church’, rebuilt and restored in 1858–59 Gothic style: only the south doorway chancel arch have sculpture of twelfth-century date, though some windows probably contain original stonework. Despite amount new carving evident arch, there are reasons for believing that restoration was cautious one, what now seen reproduces, unusually faithfully, state these archways. This being so, an interpretation sculptural programmes both has been attempted. manor belonged to archbishop York, plentiful patterns motifs suggest eclectic ‘Yorkshire School’ context echoes his wide contacts region; parallels Healaugh, Barton-le-Street, Riccall, Stillingfleet elsewhere. It suggested theme doorway, with its combination moral teaching vision ‘the appearing Jesus Christ’, taken from First Epistle Peter.
The Yorkshire archaeological journal