George Ayliffe Poole

George Ayliffe Poole (1809–1883) was an English Anglican cleric and a writer on religion, church architecture and history.

On 16 March 1839 he was appointed perpetual curate of St James's, Leeds.

which he held until, in 1876, he was presented by William Connor Magee, Bishop of Peterborough, to the rectory of Winwick in the same county.

He died at Winwick on 25 September 1883, having married a daughter of Jonathan Wilks of St Ann's, Burley.

[2] Poole, with John Henry Parker and Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, was a leading advocate of the Gothic Revival.

Illustration of Skirlaugh Chapel, from Architectural, historical, and picturesque Illustrations of the Chapel of St. Augustine, Skirlaugh, Yorkshire (1855), edited by George Ayliffe Poole