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The Norman W tower is unbuttressed, and the windows ithere are plain and simple. Herringbone walling appears on the exterior, for example on the S wall of the nave. The font might be represented by a few inches of the rim of the present font. According to J. L. Pearson it was restored 1883-85.
Burghwallis was held by William from Ilbert de Lacy in 1086. No church or priest were recorded.
An attractive church with many interesting features, Pevsner says its nave has 'excessive use of herringbone masonry; cf. Kippax'.
N. Pevsner and E. Radcliffe, The Buildings of England. Yorkshire: West Riding, Harmondsworth, 1967, 150f.
H. M. and J. Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 3 vols., Cambridge, 1965, vol. 2, 730ff.
