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Site of St Helen's Chapel is a scheduled ancient monument located in Yorkshire, England. The site represents the remains of a medieval chapel dedicated to Saint Helen, indicating religious activity and settlement in the area during the medieval period. The chapel no longer stands as a visible structure, surviving instead as an archaeological site where evidence of its former presence may be traced through earthworks, foundations, or subsurface deposits. Such sites are significant to our understanding of the distribution of medieval religious buildings and the patterns of worship and community organisation in medieval Yorkshire.
Site of St Helen's Chapel is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004799. View the official record →
Site of St Helen's Chapel is a scheduled ancient monument located in Yorkshire, England.
Site of St Helen's Chapel is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1004799.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Conisbrough Castle (4.8 km), Swinton Pottery (The Rockingham Works), 310m and 120m north west of Keeper's Cottage (6.9 km), Conisbrough Parks Romano-British Villa (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Site of St Helen's Chapel's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Site of St Helen's Chapel stands on Pennine Upper Coal Measures Formation, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.