St Mary the Virgin, Hemingbrough

[1] William the Conqueror gave the church to the prior and convent of Durham.

On 26 October 1426 Henry VI gave licence to convert it into a collegiate church with residentiary canons whose period of residence was thirteen weeks each.

From 1479 this also applied to the provost who until then was compelled to be resident for the greater part of the year.

The church is home to one of the UK's oldest surviving Misericords dating to the first part of the 13th century.

[3] The church is of a cruciform layout and is built in the Decorated and later English style, although the windows in the north transept and the nave are Perpendicular.