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. |
