124 HEALEY. NORTH RIDING YORKSHIRE. [KELLY'B

COLSTERD.ALE. Mallaby Christopher, farmer Teasdale John, farmer Banks J ames, farmer Mallaby J oseph, farmer Thompson Thos. farmer, llales house Clark Robert, gamekeeper to Lord Nicholson John, farmer, Low Agra Wood J oseph, farmer Mash am Nicholson John1 farmer, .West Agra Wright Henry, cowkeeper C•oper Robert, farmer, High house Scaife Isabella (Mrs.), farmer HELMSLEY (in Domesday "Elmeslac "), is a mar­ and its founder, Waiter L'Espec, and on the jambs are ket and union town, parish, and head of a county court desC>riptive inscriptions with painted shields of arms: district, with a station on the Gilling and Pickering on the interior walls of the towe:r hang three old halbem, branch of the North Eastern railway, and is 12 miles a slave stick taken from the neck of one of a slave gang west from Pickering, 23 north from York, 6 west from in the centre of Africa, a case containing impressions Kirby Moorside, 14 east from Thirsk and 218 from Lon­ of old seals and documents &c. belonging to the parish, don; it is in the Whitby divisim:: of the Riding, wapen­ with various other curiosities, and another case containing take and petty sessi:mal division of Ryedale, rural dean­ relics brought from the Holy Land. 'fhe entire cost of ery of Helmsley, archdeaconry of Cleveland and diocese the rebuilding, begun by William, 2nd baron Feversham, of York. The parish consists of five townships and is 12 in z866, and completed by William Ernest, 1st Earl of miles long from north ro south. The town lies in a Feversham, in 1868, was £15,ooo: the church is seated kollow, s\ll'1'ounded by hills, at the bottom of which with oak benches, and will hold 65o persons. The regis­ flows the river Rye, crossed south-east of the town by ter dates from the year I575· The living is a vicarage, a stone bridge of two unequal arche.s. Waterworks were net yearly value £280, including 32 acres of glebe and erected by the late Earl of Feversham some years since, residence; it is iu the gift of the Earl of Feverslham, the supply being obtained diroot from a spring in the and held since 1870 by the Rev. Charles Norris Gray M.A. rock xl miles distent; a second spring half a mile still of University College, Oxford, and rural dean of Helms. further up has recently been added, and the supply ley. The impropriate tithe amounts to £27. The of water is now both ample and excellent ; the town Catholic church, in the High street, is a building of was partially drained in 1853, and improved drainage stone, erected in 1894 and dedicated to the Blessed works were fully completed in 1897: the outfall being Virgin Mary. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel, at the f of a mile below the town, where the sewage is filtered east end of the town, erected in 18oo, and enlarged in through gravel beds; there are gas works belonging 1852, was rebuilt in 1902, at a cost of over £2,ooo, and to a private firm. The church of All Saints, partially will seat 5oo persons: on the south side of the chapel rebuilt in 1866-8, under the direction of Messrs. are scho.Ql-rooms, built in 1852 and 1878. There is also Banks and Barry, architects, is an interesting edifice a Primitive ~Iethodist chapel. The Union Club, which of stone, consisting oil chancel, nave, nGeorge V. then Duke of York, durin~ of five shields : there are also inscribed brasses to John his visit to the Royal Agricultural Show at York in Pierson, d. 12 Dec. 1770; William Moore, bur. 18 Feb. July, 1goo. The building is of freestone with stone drPssings, and comprises a court house and market x6S5, and Ohristopher Agar, d. 10 Nov. 1799: the hall, reading room and coffee bar, and a residence for ~hancel has a reredos of three arched compartments, filled ·with mosaics, and is fitted. with seats under a the <'aretaker. Adjoining the churchyard on the north i!! the Canons Garth, an ancient timbered house, and ~ontinuous coved canopy : the north transept forms a formerly a residence of the Canons of Kirkham, who ~hapel, arranged in r88r by the present vicar in memory of his father, the !Most Rev. Robert Gray D.D. <;erved Relmsley church : the portion remaining com­ Bishop of Cape Town 1847-74, and named in honour of prif;es the centre with stone and timber porch, and the gabled we~t wing : an arched entrance leads from the St. .Aelred, 3rd Abbot of Rievaulx : it has a separate altar and a canopied wood reredos, over which hangs street to the house, which in 1892 underwent a thorough rt>storation, including the rebuilding of the eastern 3 painting of a "Pieta ''; the east window of the chapel represents " the Crucifixion "; the altar and reredos were wing on its original site to correspond with the designrd by Mr. Temple Moore, arohitect, of Hamp­ e:xi~ting west wing. It is now the residence of Church stead, London : a screen divides this transept from the of England Sisters from All Saints Convent, St. Albans, aisle, and outside it are the remains of an ancient Rerts, who work in the parish. Duncombe Park. piscina and a brass : the south transept, called St. Rievaulx and BYland Abbevs, the church and cave Calumba's chapel, is used for early Sunday morning at Kirkdale, Ho.;ingham Spa, Gilling Castle, Pickerin!! services, and contains an altar and reredos with carved Castle, Kirby 'Moorside, Sinninzton, with its maypole on t,he green, Lasting-ham, which ha.s an extremely fi~res, the latter being given by friends in memory Qf the Rev. S. D. Hodgson, a former curate : the east interesting church, o.nd Coxwold, once the residence ~f wall of the chapel is decorated with frescoes: the ancient Sterne, are places of interest in the neighbourhood. octagonal font basin is now in Pockley church : the font Helmsley Castle, situated just within the limits of in use dates from 1867, and consists of a square basin Duncombe park, at the south-east part of the town, was supported on five shafts: in the church porch lies a large a fortress of probably very ancient oriJ?in, snd though fragment of stone, carved with an interlaced pattern, littJe now remains. yet its fotmidable earth11"0rks and the and possibly part of a cross : in the north aisle are fra~rme-ntAI of the buildinJ?fl' which still exill't. ahow thal t1everal stained windows depicting events in the ancient when perfech it must have been almost impregnable. ID history of the parish and of the abbey of Rievaul:J: plan it is rectangular, and consists of an inner ward.