St Wilfrid’s church seems to date, for the most part, from the fourteenth century, when it may have been reconstructed with material from an older building.

[2] On the west wall of the ringing chamber, at second storey level, is a sandstone carving, on its side, of a man apparently digging, while on the west wall of the clock chamber, at third storey level, is a collection of nine sandstone panels believed to represent the occupations of the seasons.

Seven of these stones are voussoir-shaped, and may have formed part of a band of ornament nine inches wide on the architrave of an arch in the earlier pre-fourteenth century building.

Carved into the capital of the north jamb is a small, 3” by 4”, panel containing a three-quarter length depiction of a bearded bishop together with another figure.

It is perhaps St Wilfrid himself, either with a newly baptised convert or, as the freeing of slaves was a distinguishing feature of the bishop's career, in the act of manumission.