The Catholic Church across Yorkshire's historic West Riding since 1878

The Catholic Church across Yorkshire's historic West Riding since 1878

No longer an ‘Unknown’ Soldier of the Great War

More than 100 years after his death, a private soldier commemorated on the St Mary’s Selby Roll of Honour has full recognition for his military service in the Great War, thanks to years of painstaking research by parishioner Rona Houlton. Leading up to the WWI...

Worthy Memorials for Selby’s Parish Priests

Overlooking the nearby planting of a Memorial Poppy Cross on the family grave which named a son ‘lost’ in the Great War, was a dirt-ingrained, uneven grave topped by a leaning headstone which invited further investigation. This was discovered to be that of Fr John...