Church of St Aidan

CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1317064
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Church of St Aidan
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1317064
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Church of St Aidan
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, MAIN STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST AIDAN, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hellifield
National Grid Reference:
SD 85669 56485

Details

HELLIFIELD MAIN STREET SD 85 NE (south side) 8/10 Church of St Aidan

- II

Parish Church. 1905-1906 by Connon & Chorley, Leeds. Dressed, snecked sandstone, Westmorland slate roof. North entrance porch, north tower, 4 bay nave, 3 bay chancel, north vestry. Free Gothic. Gabled porch, segmental pointed arch to entrance; plank door, iron strap hinges; diagonal buttresses. 3 stage tower, 3-light windows with segmental pointed arch to first stage; second stage recessed above splayed water table, small lancet; large 3-light louvred window to bellstage. Embattled machicolation. Nave: two 3-light windows to north, 4 similar windows to south. Chancel: 3-light east window with cusped heads. Cruciform finial to east gable. Tudor arch to north vestry entrance. Interior: arched trussed roof with bolted king posts. Source: W A Shuffrey, The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven (Leeds,1914), pp 180-183.

Listing NGR: SD8566956485

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Legacy System number:
323851
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Shuffrey, W A, The Churches of the Deanery of North Craven, (1914), 180-183

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of Church of St Aidan

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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