Church of St Michael and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds
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The Church of St Michael and all Angels, Garton on the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire is a church of medieval origins that was built c.1132 for the prior of Kirkham Abbey. Long connected to the Sykes family of Sledmere, Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet engaged John Loughborough Pearson to undertake a major reconstruction of the building in 1856–1857. Sykes son, the fifth baronet, employed George Edmund Street to design a series of murals for interior decoration, depicting a range of bible stories. The murals, "dirty and decaying" when Nikolaus Pevsner recorded the church in his 1972 East Yorkshire volume for the Buildings of England series, were restored in 1985–1991 in Pevsner's memory by the Pevsner Memorial Trust.
Church of St Michael and All Angels | |
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Church of St Michael and All Angels, Garton on the Wolds | |
54.0206°N 0.5027°W / 54.0206; -0.5027 | |
OS grid reference | SE 98197 59328 |
Location | Garton on the Wolds, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Church of England |
History | |
Founded | 1132 |
Dedication | Saint Michael |
Architecture | |
Heritage designation | Grade I |
Designated | 20 September 1966 |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of York |
Clergy | |
Vicar(s) | Revd David Fletcher |
The church remains an active parish church and is a Grade I listed building.