Lucy, daughter of Piers FitzHerbert, married Sir William de Ros of Helmsley-in-Holderness [alias Hamlake] (died c. 1264) who acquired the manor of 'Wyverthorp'.

Above the south door of the nave is a sun-dial, with a part-illegible fragment of an inscription in Saxon characters, claimed as reading: " In honore Sancti andre - Herbert W.... Hoc Monasterium ".

His son William FitzHerbert was granted by King John, the lands of "Launsborough, Collerthorpe, Wyderthorpe, Holperthorpe and the two Lottum".

A Victorian benefactor of Weaverthorpe's St Andrew's church was local landowner Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet.

He paid for 18 rural churches to be built, repaired or rebuilt in the East and North Yorkshire areas, but mainly in the Wolds.

This has left small plateaus like the one that the Church of St Andrew is perched on as it overlooks the village.

This was to avoid confusion over place names (as there was a Wykeham station on the Forge Valley Line between Pickering and Seamer).

Gazetteers e.g.: "Bulmer's History and Directory of East Yorkshire (1892)" Media related to Weaverthorpe at Wikimedia Commons