The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Cuthbert (formerly)
Parish church
Bilbrough is a village 6 miles SW of York. Medieval church rebuilt in 'Norman' style, following faculty of 1872. It is entered from the village street on the N side. The church retains the Perpendicular Fairfax Chapel on the S side, but there are no twelfth century remains reused in the structure. According to Crawford (p. 2) that 'A font, perhaps Norman, was taken out of the old church when it was rebuilt in 1873 and is in the garden of the Old Rectory'.
Parish church
Moor Monkton is a village 7 miles NW of York. The church consists of a 12th-century aisleless nave and chancel with later W tower. Thoroughly restored c.1878, according to plans held by the Borthwick Institute, York. The church stands alone about one mile from the village (itself at the end of the road) and, when visited in 1995, had no mains electricity and was lamp-lit. Remains of 12th-century work are found in the two S doorways, two small plain windows in the N wall of the chancel and in the lower jambs of the round-headed chancel arch. Of these, only the S nave doorway contains sculpture.