This tiny church on the North York Moors, 4½ miles north of Helmsley, was built to serve the dispersed farming community. The area is now sparsely populated but the church is still well cared-for and fills to capacity for its occasional services (Christmas, Easter, Ascension, patronal festival, harvest).

Open during the summer months, it is well worth a visit. Indeed Sir John Betjeman thought his visit so worthy of note that he penned a poem about it, when visiting the Earl of Feversham at Duncombe Park, Helmsley.

"... It's a far cry frae Harrogate
And mony a heathery mile
Tae a stane kirk wi' a wee spire
And a verra wee south aisle.
The rhododendrons bloom wi'oot
On ilka Simmer's day,
And it's there the Airl o' Feversham
Wad hae his tenants pray;
For there's something in the painted roof
And the mouldings round the door,
The braw bench and the plain font
That tells o' Temple Moore."

(from Perp. Revival i' the North from John Betjeman's Collected Poems, London 1976)