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Upleatham, REDCAR, TS11 8AF

Reputedly the smallest church in England

All that remains of the old church is a portion of the west end, including a small embattled tower, and some fragments of masonry further east. The original building, which appears to have been of late 12thcentury date, consisted of chancel and nave with south aisle, with a bellcote over the west gable. An aisle seems to have been added to the chancel at a later date.

Once thought to be the smallest church in England although that honour goes to a Wiltshire Church at Bremilham. It was actually once part of a bigger church dating back to the 12th-century although a fragment of a 9th-century cross has been found suggesting an even older building. The church stands beside the B1268, a road which was built to bypass the village of Upleatham in the late 19th-century. The old map shows a church isolated from the Victorian village, suggesting that the medieval village mentioned in the Domesday Book would have been clustered around the church. From my photo-diary for 13 March 2019 http://www.fhithich.uk/?p=20912

This is the surviving part of a 12C church, the tower and the western part of the nave. It was replaced by a new church in the village in 1835, but continued in use as a mortuary chapel (as captioned on the 1895 1:2500 map). The new church only has a small churchyard.

The surviving section of the original parish church which dates from the Norman period. Carved heads [Norman] can be seen along the corbel table above the doorway. The west tower is probably 17th century. A new church was built in the village in 1835, but this too is now redundant.

Upleatham Church from the road through open gate and with Skelton in the background.

This is all that is left of Upleatham's original parish church. It stands alone below the village and has just the west end of the nave and tower surviving. Some of the work here is Norman, although the tower is probably 17th century.

This photograph shows a view of the posting box and telephone kiosk in the small village of Upleatham. Park House and High Park Plantation can just be seen on the horizon in the centre of the image. The picture was taken looking in a south-easterly direction towards A173 road near Duck Hill.