About Us

This church was originally consecrated by the Archbishop of York, William Maclagan, on the 12th October 1896; some two and a half years after the foundation stone had been laid by the patron of Helmsley parish, the Earl of Feversham. It was the Earl who had in fact been the real moving spirit behind getting it built.

It was designed by the well known architect Temple Moor.

The story goes that when the builders met each morning they used to say, "We'll toss a coin. An if it stays up in t'air, we'll wark. Bud if it cum dahn, we'll gan ti t'Sun Inn for a beer".

Yet somehow the job was done. And in 1898 the new church was given its own new parish: Bilsdale Midcable. "Midcable" is a contraction of "middle chapel", the church being in the middle of the dale.