Churches in North YorkshireNorth Yorkshire, England

Priory ruin on a bend of the Wharfe.

Vast Gothic cathedral, largest in northern Europe.

A medieval church above the Aysgarth falls, keeping a carved rood screen rescued from Jervaulx Abbey.

A remote Saxon church near Kirkbymoorside, keeping a famous 11th-century sundial with its dedication inscription.

A tiny Saxon-founded church in a wooded dale near Thornton-le-Dale, with carved stones and a beck alongside.

A church above the beck at Clapham, its medieval tower surviving a rebuilding of the body in 1814, in a village of little bridges below Ingleborough.

Middleham's collegiate church, linked to Richard III, dedicated to a Saxon saint said to have been martyred nearby.

The only Elizabethan church in the Dales, built in 1580 amid Muker's flower meadows in upper Swaledale.

A small Norman church at Redmire with a weathered doorway, standing apart from the village toward the Ure.

A Norman church built over a rare vaulted crypt, on the site of a 7th-century monastery.

A medieval church below the castle whose churchyard holds the grave of Anne Bronte.

A weathered clifftop church atop the 199 steps, its box-pew interior looming beside the abbey ruins.

A low, ancient church straddling the infant Wharfe at Hubberholme, with a rare surviving rood loft and Robert Thompson 'mouseman' pews.

A 15th-century church with an unusual octagonal tower, its churchyard tied to novelist Laurence Sterne.

A tall, light Perpendicular church on Askrigg's cobbles, its wide nave a landmark of upper Wensleydale.

A large cruciform medieval church set apart from the town across a ravine near the sea.

A clifftop church above Sandsend holding a striking collection of Viking-age carved stones.

A sturdy church beneath Pen-y-ghent in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, its Norman font a stop on the Three Peaks route.