St Mary & St Joseph Catholic Church, Aiskew, stands on the southern side of the A684 main road, in Stanley Terrace. The church was opened in 1878 by the Stapletons, who had remained the local Catholic landlords since the Reformation, when Catholic power over the original parish church of St Gregory Bedale was removed (see below). The earlier Tudor implant of the Digby family, who had 'gone native', had been drawn into local sympathies of anti-Elizabethan rebellion. [The History Files]

---

Photograph supplied by and Copyright of Colin Hinson.
If you wish to contact the copyright owner, please use this page.

St. Mary and St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church is located at OS Grid Ref. SE2703288453

---

If you have an interest in Church Architecture, please see Phil Draper's "Church Crawler" pages.