Heritage sites in GILBERDYKE PARISH

English Heritage sites near Gilberdyke Parish

HOWDEN MINSTER

5 miles from Gilberdyke Parish

The elaborately decorated ruins of a 14th-century chancel and chapter house (viewable only from the outside), attached to the still operational cathedral-like minster church.

ST PETER'S CHURCH, BARTON-UPON-HUMBER

14 miles from Gilberdyke Parish

Located in North Lincolnshire, St Peter's Church is an archaeological and architectural treasure trove waiting for you to discover. It is home to over 2800 burials from Anglo-Saxon to Victorian times.

CLIFFORD'S TOWER, YORK

19 miles from Gilberdyke Parish

Experience stunning views over the ancient city of York and immerse yourself in centuries of history at one of York’s most iconic sites.

THORNTON ABBEY AND GATEHOUSE

19 miles from Gilberdyke Parish

Thornton Abbey’s enormous and ornate fortified gatehouse is the largest and amongst the finest of all English Monastic gatehouses.

GAINSTHORPE MEDIEVAL VILLAGE

20 miles from Gilberdyke Parish

A deserted medieval village, one of the best-preserved examples in England, clearly visible as a complex of grassy humps and bumps.

YORK COLD WAR BUNKER

20 miles from Gilberdyke Parish

The most modern and spine chilling of English Heritage’s properties the York Cold War Bunker uncovers the secret history of Britain’s Cold War.

Churches in Gilberdyke Parish

St Stephen, Newport

Main Road,Scalby Newport Hull
01430 432956

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Actually situated in the hamlet of Scalby, St Stephen's serves the two growing villages of Newport and Gilberdyke along the B1230. It is a relatively new parish and church, built between 1897 and 1899 from local stone at a cost of £7,000. The land and money for the building of the Church was given by Mr Thomas Whitaker of Everthorpe Hall, who with his wife is buried at the east end of the graveyard.
The building of the church indicates the growth of the village of Newport, which began in 1781 with the opening of the Market Weighton Canal and the Enclosure Act of Wallingfen. Indeed, the earliest burial and baptism registers for St Stephen's record the place of residence as both ‘New Village' as well as Newport. Gilberdyke is a much older settlement, originating from the land given to Gilbert Hansard in the 12th century, who wisely built a dyke in the swampy land to improve its drainage.
When the church was built the new parish was carved out of parts from the neighbouring parishes of Blacktoft, Howden and Eastrington, as well as the nearby areas including part of the Market Weighton Canal.
St Stephen's is in the late decorated style of architecture, with a good organ make by Foster Andrews of Hull, and has a fine stained glass window at the east end designed by Clayton and Bell. There are 5 bells, rung by means of a ringing frame, which we are busy fundraising for, and their refurbishment takes place this autumn at Loughborough, where they were originally made.
St Stephen's is a large church, given the population of the parish, and like most churches there is a constant struggle to finance its upkeep. But it is a much loved church, with a small but faithful congregation at our 11am Sunday service, and with families returning for baptisms and marriages to their ‘home' church, whom we gladly welcome.