St Helen's Church, Skeffling

The Church of St Helen dates from around 1460.^[1] It stands in an isolated setting in the village of Skeffling on the edge of the North Sea.^[a][2] It was restored in the very early 20th century,^[3] and again in 1984–85.^[1] When active, the church was within the Deanery of South Holderness within the Diocese of York.^[4] Faced with steeply declining congregations,^[b] the church was declared redundant in 2018.^[6] In 2021 it was taken into the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.^[1]

St Helen's consists of a nave with porch, a chancel and a western tower. David Neave, writing in his Yorkshire: York and the East Riding volume in the Buildings of England series, revised and re-issued in 2005, notes the tower's "fine Perpendicular Gothic" design.^[3] The building material is local cobblestone.^[7] The interior contains a collection of 18th-century funerary monuments, many commemorating members of the Holme and the Bee families, who were major local landowners.^[7] The church is a Grade I listed building.^[7] A cross in the churchyard contemporaneous with the church has its own Grade II listing.^[8] It is topped by a sundial dating from the late 18th century.^[3]

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  Plaque commemorating the 1980s restoration
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  The church in its isolated, rural, setting
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  Interior