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Kepwick
North Yorkshire

Kepwick North Yorkshire

8 miles NNE Thirsk on the eastern edge of the Hambleton Hills

Grid Ref:SE450900 54:18:13N, 1:18:36W   Where is Kepwick

Postcode YO7 2xx   Telephone  01845 537xxx

Post Office: Tuesday & Thursday  9-5 closed 12:30-1:30

Memorial Chapel Kepwick

The private chapel which now belonging to the Guthe family was built in 1894. It has some fine glass and a good Harrison organ. The West Window depicts St Michael and the more heroic biblical characters and saints. The East Window depicts the Resurrection, designed by Clayton & Bell after World War I.

The land was held by the Knout and de Fauconberg families in Norman times. Richard Knout (Knut or Canute?) was Eva of Boltby’s second husband, 1284-92. (See effigies in Felixkirk.)

Originally the private chapel was the Mission room and was rebuilt and expanded by the Warner family, whose only son was shot down during World War I whilst serving with the R.F.C. against Richthofen’s flying circus. His late sister was the basis of one of Herriot’s characters who owned a lively pekinese dog.

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