Sandal Magna - Church of St Helen

The Church of St Helen (the Mother of Constantine the Great). At the time of the Norman Conquest the church was a possession of the crown. The Saxon church was recorded as one of two churches in the Wakefield manor in the Domesday Book of 1086. In about 1150 the first church was replaced by a second church in the shape of a Latin cross by Earl Warenne of Sandal Castle. It was enlarged in about 1180 and almost completely rebuilt in the first half of the 14th century. The church was altered and extended after 1505 and the present church extensively restored and enlarged in 1872.  A cruciform style church with a central tower. There is a Perpendicular screen, a restored font of 1662 and fine monuments.