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PARISHES OF BISHOP THORNTON, BURNT YATES, MARKINGTON, RIPLEY
and SOUTH STAINLEY

CALENDAR OF SERVICES FOR FEBRUARY 2012

DATE	Markington	South Stainley	Bishop Thornton	Burnt Yates	Ripley
Wednesday 1 February					10,00 amEucharist  PC
Sunday 5 February 3 BEFORE LENT/ CANDLEMAS SUNDAY	8.15am Eucharist	10.00 am Family Service	11.15 am Family Service	9.15 am  Candlemas Sing Praise! (Non-Eucharistic)	10.45 am Eucharist
Wednesday 8 February					10.00 am  Eucharist
Sunday 12 February 2 BEFORE LENT Couples Sunday	10.00 am  Eucharist + Junior Church		11.15 am Eucharist	9.15 am Eucharist	10.45 am Eucharist and Baptism
Wednesday 15 February					10.00am  Eucharist
Sunday 19 February 1 BEFORE LENT	8.15 am Eucharist	11.15 am Eucharist	10.00 am Family Service	9.15 am Eucharist	10.45am Matins
Wednesday 22 February ASH WEDNESDAY			7.30 pm Eucharist	7.30 pm Eucharist	10.00am Eucharist
Sunday 26 February LENT 1	10.00 am Family Service and Baptism		11.15 am Eucharist	9.15 am Eucharist	10.45 am Eucharist
Wednesday 29 February					10.00 am Eucharist

The History of St Michael The Archangel Markington

The Church, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, was consecrated on 29^th October 1844, work having commenced in December of the previous year, eight years after the refounding of the Diocese of Ripon in 1836.

Designed by Mr A H Cates of York, the Church was built at the instigation of the eldest son of the celebrated William Wilberforce whose family still live in Markington. It was appropriate that the address in the occasion of the Consecration was given by Archdeacon Wilberforce who afterwards became Bishop of Oxford and then Winchester. The following account of the Consecration and brief description of the Church was contributed by the Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese at that time:

“On Tuesday, 29^th October, 1844, the new Church at Markington in the Parish of Ripon was consecrated. The Church a most beautiful little structure in the early decorated style is dedicated to St Michael the Archangel. It is built on a very commodious and picturesque site. The plan consists of Chancel with vestry on the North side, Nave and South Porch, the Western Gable being surmounted by a belfry pierced for two bells. Entering the nave from the porch, on the left-hand stands the stone font of chaste design. The seats are all low and open – in fact the old “stall” of correct and ecclesiastical pewing. On the South side of the chancel arch is placed a double reading desk of stone, and on the opposite side the pulpit, also of stone with access from the vestry. (The reading desk of stone and the stone pulpit have since been replaced by lectern and pulpit of oak.) The Chancel is well developed. In the usual place stands a stone Altar, the table having the fine crosses patee incised. In the South wall are two Sedilia and a piscine and on the North side a credence-table. The East window of three lights is a copy of the well-known and remarkable window at Dunchurch in Gloucestershire, it is the work of William Wailes whose work may also be seen in Ripon Cathedral. The side windows are lancets with cusped heads. The Church possesses two bells cast in 1844 by Mears of London both having latin inscriptions which respectively translate as “I gather the clergy, I praise the true God, I call the people” and the second bell “Lament the dead, I drive away pestilence, I adorn Festivals”.

On 12^th February 1962 a severe gale caused considerable damage to the roof of the Church and on 16^th February a further gale brought the Bellcote down destroying the bells and damaging the roof still further. The bells were recast and hung in a new and slightly lower Bellcote the rededication taking place on Palm Sunday, 7^th April 1968.

On 10^th September 1973, a fire destroyed the vestry and its contents causing damage to the Sanctuary roof. The repaired and redecorated Church, together with new furnishings, was rededicated by the then Bishop of Ripon on Sunday 15^th September, 1974.

In 1993 the Organ was rebuilt at considerable cost and in 1994 the oil fired central heating boiler was replaced with a gas fired installation.

The Vicars of St Michael The Archangel