Church of St Hilda

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St Hilda's Church is an Anglican church in the West Cliff area of Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. A chapel of ease on the site opened in the late 1870s, a temporary structure built of iron. A permament building was designed by Robert James Johnson and was constructed between 1884 and 1886. It is in the Decorated Gothic style, and cost £18,500 to build. The tower was only completed in 1938, to a design by G. E. Charnwood. It has been grade II* listed since 1996, and is described by Historic England as "a superb example of the late Gothic Revival style with a particularly fine collection of Victorian and Edwardian fittings and stained glass".

The church is built of stone with tile roofs. It has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a west baptistry, a south porch, north and south transepts, a chancel with flanking vestries, and a broad tower at the crossing. The tower has three two-light bell openings on each side and an embattled parapet. At the west end is a large six-light window and octagonal corner turrets with short spires, and the east window has seven lights. Inside, the chancel has stencilled decorations on the wall...