Holme church was never very rich, and 'it is said that a vicarage was never ordained there' (Barker, 2). In 1862, all except the chancel was demolished. The chancel arch was blocked and a door inserted there. Colour photographs of this reduced building and the loose capital, taken probably some time in the 1980s, have been supplied to the Corpus by Mr. Harold Hall and Mr. Geoffery Creaser, residents.

'The derelict stone chancel, the only surviving part of St Peter's church, was demolished in 1989. The foundations remain in the overgrown churchyard' (Pevsner and Neave 1995, 473).

Five pieces of twelfth-century sculpture from Holme were reset in Etton church.

Barker says the church was given by Alice de Quintin to Nun Appleton priory in 1163; Alice was the foundress of the priory. At the dissolution the priory had a rent from the Rectory Farm of Holme super woldam.

The Borthwick Insitute has a terrier from Holme for 1861. The parish of Holme was united with South Dalton under the name of Dalton Holme in 1955 (VCH IV, 85, 90-1, 113), but Barker says this happened in 1862, which might make more sense as that was the year the church was reduced to its chancel.

Morris (1919, 193) saw the diminutive remains of the ancient parish church. Internally, the hood over the Decorated period E window 'is composed of Norm. chevrons, and other Norm. stones are built in elsewhere... Built into the present W end are three remarkable bits of sculpture... These carvings are perhaps late Norm.'

See also Description and Comments.

It is suggested in the report on Etton that the two capitals reset there belonged to the former S nave doorway at Holme-on-the-Wolds. In this regard, it is good to have the evidence of the 1980s photograph showing one of them lying in the grass in St Peter’s churchyard, otherwise these early capitals would have no recorded history and no certain provenance. Whiteing (1952-5) does not mention the capitals.

Chevron voussoirs at Holme are mentioned by Morris as forming the internal hoodmould over the Decorated E window (1913, 193); they have not been found at Holme or Etton, nor is there any mention in the guide to St Mary’s, Dalton Holme, of them there.

The recesses where the three larger panels now at Etton had been reset in 1862 can be seen in two of the photographs. They were in the former W wall of the nave, around the 19^th c. door in the blocked chancel arch. Those of St Peter and St Paul were placed against the moulding at the springing of the pointed medieval chancel arch, and the panel of the Harrowing was centrally within the new fabric just above the doorway. In 1951, they were taken to Etton and reset inside as now seen (Whiteing 1952-5). There are no faculty documents at the Borthwick for this work. See the report on Etton for further discussion and photographs.

The quality and size of the three large panels contrasts with the rest of the known fabric of Holme church (the two capitals and some chevron voussoirs). Perhaps the three panels came from a church or monastery in Beverley when it was demolished after the Reformation. South Dalton’s medieval church had some connection to St John’s Beverley; it also was poor and was often rebuilt and patched up with brick; it was demolished in the 1860s.