The Church, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, was consecrated on 29th October 1844, work having commenced in December of the previous year, eight years after the re-founding of the Diocese of Ripon in 1836.

 

Designed by Mr A H Cates of York, the Church was built at the instigation of the eldest son of the celebrated William Wilberforce whose family still live in Markington. It was appropriate that the address in the occasion of the Consecration was given by Archdeacon Wilberforce who afterwards became Bishop of Oxford and then Winchester.

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