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The village church of St. Mary's is the church of the former priory and of high architectural interest for students of Anglo-Norman architecture. At the Reformation the east end of the church was demolished and until the 1870s, St. Mary's Nun Monkton was a truncated low roofed building with standard 18th century Anglican fittings such as box pewes and monuments. In the 1870's however, as a result of the Tractarian Movement , the village squire of the day, Isaac Crawhall , commissioned a new east end, built in high Anglican style, and a magnificent east window with glass by Burne Jones and William Morris which has a claim to be the best stained glass in North or West Yorkshire. The earlier form of the church is the one which the celebrated writer, Anne Bronte , would have known. During her time as a governorness to the Robinson at Thorpe Green, Little Ouseburn, Bronte also taught the children of the Rector of Nun Monkton and almost certainly visited the village. Nun Monkton ceased to be an estate village in 1934 when the houses of the village were sold off. The population today, of around 250, is well below its high point of about 350 in the 1890's and the population now consists largely of commuters travelling daily to Leeds . The last shop in the village closed in 1986. The village green however continues to be grazed by cows and other animals and is one of the last 'working' greens in Yorkshire. In March 2004, Nun Monkton's 78-foot high green and white striped maypole, which had been standing since the 1870's, snapped and fell down in a gale. The village is currently at work to replace it. |
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