Kilnwick Percy is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1.5 miles NE of Pocklington. According to Pevsner and Neave, ‘The hall and church stand alone in parkland providing the classic deserted village landscape. Hollow ways and traces of house platforms to the S of the church mark the site of the small village finally deserted in the early c18.’ (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 579). The Norman church was rebuilt in 1864-5 ‘in a more elaborate Norman’ style but perhaps on the same plan. In 1901, A. H. Leadman wrote that the doorway ‘has had a chisel over it instead of a scrubbing brush and hot water’ (p. 284).
The church of St Helen has nave and chancel with north porch. Two doorways were reused together to form the N entrance; since the disappearance of the village in the previous century, the Victorian rebuilding was done for the entire benefit of the Hall, and both doorways now face it. The corbels are all likely to be copies, though good ones. There are said to be remains of the chancel arch, but none were identified.