Religion

All Saints Church

All Saints Church The Parish Church of All Saints stands on the hill of Keuper Marl which rises out of the vale of York on the northeastern edge of Holme-on-Spalding Moor. A church is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086. The present structure dates from a later period, although it probably contains some masonry …

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Methodist Chapel, Selby Road

A Methodist community was present in the parish of Holme in 1764, with six families and a meeting house. Meeting houses were also noted at the house of Richard Blackburn (1771), barn of Thomas Johnson (1776), and barn of George Goode (1781). The first recorded Chapel being in Thomas Smart’s Yard (1787). With the support …

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Zion Chapel

The Primitive Methodists built a chapel in 1850 in Holme-on-Spalding Moor, in Runner End, which was replaced by the Zion Methodist Chapel in 1880 and closed in 1986. The chapel was sold and has been converted to a private residence. Archaeological monitoring was undertaken in 2006 which revealed the partial remains of the former Primitive …

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