Professor Tony Culyer's small, but informative booklet on the history of St.Catherine's Church can be purchased from the church for the modest sum of £1.00. It speculates that the earliest church on this site was dedicated to St.Peter and that the annual Barmby Moor Feast formerly began on the first Thursday preceding St.Peter's Day. It is now held on the Saturday following that Thursday. The dedication to "St.Katherine" dates from 1252. Substantial rebuilding would appear to have taken place in 1787 when the church was re-roofed and in more recent years, the interior of the church has undergone some excellent refurbishment. The churchyard is reputed to be the largest in East Yorkshire and contains carefully tended graves to the fallen from Bomber Command 102 Ceylon Squadron, based in Pocklington in the 2nd World war.

The tower houses six bells that are rung from a ringing chamber above the choir vestry and accessed by a circular stone stairway in the tower. They are tuned to the key of A major.
The three smallest bells were cast with the financial assistance of the "Ringing in the Millennium" National Lottery Fund in 1998. They bear inscriptions from Tennyson's In Memorium.

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