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St. Wilfrid was the bishop of York in AD 665, after defending the Roman cause at the Synod of Whitby and he also built Ripon Cathedral in AD 672. The church we see today, built in 1839, was originally a Chapel of Ease. After Queen Victoria signed the Order in Council, Pool became a Parish so that in 1879 the Chapel of Ease became St. Wilfrid’s Church which was dedicated in 1880.
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