Austerfield St Helena

Jacobean altar rail with turned balusters, carved top rail and newels with acorn finials.

The oak reredos was a gift from the Rev T T Taylor and was installed during the restoration of 1897-8.

A pointed-arched piscina recess with square bowl.

The font has a tapered cylindrical bowl on a 19th century pedestal. It was recovered from a farmyard in the late 19th century where it was being used as a trough.

The timber pulpit with decorated panels is on a stone base.

The Royal Coat of Arms of King George II 1727-1760) is hung in the centre of the north wall.

A plaque in the vestry records the visit of the Society of Mayflower Descendents to Austerfield in 1955.

ST. HELENA’S CHURCH, AUSTERFIELD, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND, WHERE WILLIAM BRADFORD WAS BAPTIZED IN 1589. HE BECAME A SEPARATIST PILGRIM FATHER, AND WAS SECOND GOVERNOR, AND HISTORIAN, OF PLYMOUTH IN NEW ENGLAND. THE GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS (U.S.A., 1897) WALDO MORGAN ALLEN, GOVERNOR GENERAL ON THEIR FIRST PILGRIMAGE – 152, BY PLANES – TO THE NETHERLANDS AND ENGLAND SEPTEMBER 22 – OCTOBER 6, 1955 335 YEARS AFTER THE SAILING OF THE MAYFLOWER