St Nicholas Church - See noticeboard outside church for the current month's Service details
Our Normal Pattern of Services is:
1st Sunday in the month 9.30 am Morning Worship
2nd Sunday in the month 9.30 am Holy Communion
3rd Sunday in the month 10.00 am Benefice Holy Communion (Venue varies)
4th Sunday in the month 9.30 am Morning Worship
5th Sunday in the month 9.30 am Morning Worship
A large country church looking out across farm fields, St Nicholas is almost entirely a product of the Victorian period been rebuilt 1873-4, replacing a brick church of 1830.
One of the sole concessions to earlier history is a much restored Norman tub font, with a larger early font bowl on the floor beside it. The carved bowl supposedly came from the vanished church at Argham.
The pulpit is lovely Victorian work, as is the stone reredos behind the altar. One interesting feature is that the church is oriented the 'wrong way', that is, with the altar towards the west rather than the traditional east.
The first historical record of a church at Grindale comes from the year 1153 when a curate named Serls resigned his Prebendary post for unknown reasons.
The king and the archbishop had land at the time of the Domesday Survey, the archbishop’s land was waste. The king’s land was passed to Gant.
The church seems to have been associated with Bridlington Priory from at least 1115, but had some degree of independence, having its own patron etc, but perhaps a priest from the priory
Most of the early curates of St Nicholas's were supplied by the nearby Priory.
The medieval church was almost completely rebuilt in 1874 under the patronage of the Lloyd Greames family of Sewerby.
Address: Church Lane, Grindale, Yorkshire, England
Attraction Type: Historic Church
Location: On a minor road, four miles north-west of Bridlington