Ferrybridge Church
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Having lived in Ferrybridge most of my life I find it somewhat
amusing after travelling into North Yorkshire and taking many photos of churches
over the last few years not to have taken any of the church not 400 yards from
my home, so at last here are some of my local church and a little bit of the
history too.
The Church was built around 1030 about a mile from its current location, then it
was known as St Andrews church of Ferry Fryston, the place it was actually built
on was known as Water Fryston and true to its name was a very wet area, so much
so that the church in later years flooded quite badly and eventually it was
decided to move the church to its current location here in Ferrybridge in the
early 1950s. This would be a massive job even today, where we have so much more
lifting equipment, so then most of it must have done by hand and a crane, the
cost of the move was £10,000, which must have been a high price to pay over 60
years ago. I have included in my photos an
old
photo of how the church looked in its old location when in flood, one of my photos also shows
the flood line of 1866 carved into the stone of the doorway. Note that the door
has been put on the opposite side from where it originally was, if the door had
remained as it was, it would have been at the back in its new site on Pontefract
Road.
