Masham - Church of St Mary the Virgin

The Church of St Mary the Virgin has a Norman west tower and the spire is a 15^th century addition. The church was most likely founded in the 7th century and stood somewhere near the present town hall on what used to be known as Cockpit Hill.

The graveyard yielded 36 burials in a recent excavation. The present church - while having some Anglo-Saxon stonework and the stump of an 8th-century prayer cross — is mainly Norman with15th century additions. Masham was given to York Minster in the mediaeval period but, as the archbishop did not wish to make the long journey north to oversee the town's affairs, the parish was designated a peculiar.

Grade II* listed building on 9 August 1966