St Thomas' Church, Scotton

St Thomas' Church is the parish church of Scotton, a village near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, in England.

A chapel was built in Scotton in the early Mediaeval period, but it later fell into ruin. In 1349, a new church was founded by William de Nessfield, dedicated to Our Lady. It closed in 1548, and the villagers thereafter worshipped at St Oswald's Church, Farnham. Between 1888 and 1889 a church was built on a new site in Scotton, made available by the destruction of a 60 feet (18 m) high long barrow.[1][2] The building was designed by C. Hodgson Fowler.[3]

The church consists of a nave and chancel, all the same height, with a bellcote atop the roof where they meet. The east window has stained glass designed by Anne Southeran and installed in 1996.[3]

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  1. ^ "St Thomas". National Churches Trust. Retrieved 6 February 2026.
  2. ^ Speight, Harry (1894). Nidderdale and the Garden of the Nidd: a Yorkshire Rhineland. London: Elliot Stock.
  3. ^ a b Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.

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