Editing Askham Richard (section)

==Religious sites==
[[St Mary's Church, Askham Richard|St Mary's Church]] is Grade II* listed.<ref name="NHLE">{{National Heritage List for England| num=1316686 |desc=Church of St Mary |grade=II* |accessdate=24 September 2015}}</ref> There is record of a church here from 1086<ref name="Bulmers"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-yw-askri.html|title=Church|accessdate=4 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009152102/http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-yw-askri.html|archive-date=9 October 2012|url-status = dead}}</ref>
but most of the existing building dates from 1887, a simple Victorian design with no tower (it has a bellcote). The rebuilding however retained some fabric of the earlier church, notably the porch doorway (much restored), with two orders of colonettes and zig-zag pattern across the roll moulding. This fits with a late 11th century date for the original church. It is one of a local group of churches with Norman doorways (see [[Ainsty]]). At nearby St Nicholas [[Askham Bryan]] the door has similar motifs (leaves in the teeth of the zigzags) and may well have been made by the same hands. The doorway to the church, as opposed to the porch, is less grand but also late C11th, and there is an unusually plain west doorway of comparable age.<ref>Pevsner, N. et al. The Buildings of England: North Yorkshire, Penguin, 1959, rev.ed. 1967, pp.85-86</ref>