VOLUNTEERS have completed a four-year project to detail the contents of a 12th Century church which has been placed on English Heritage's at-risk register.

Members of Hambleton Decorative and Fine Arts Society have presented a 112-page book, featuring 144 photographs to St Wilfrid's Church, in South Kilvington, near Thirsk, which will also be given to English Heritage, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Church of England Library.

The Church Record, which is among nearly 1,800 to have been completed nationally, gives details of everything inside the church, such as stonework, metalwork, woodwork and textiles.

The church features medieval bench ends, gothic stalls, which were carved by the Rev WT Kingsley, who became the oldest rector in England while serving at the church from 1859 to 1917 and a 15th Century hexagonal black marble font donated by vicar Thomas le Scrope.

Volunteer John Burrows said: "As a small group of seven volunteers, we were aware that we were undertaking a big project which needed great patience and attention to detail, but we rose to the challenge and the resulting Church Record is a beautiful document that has been much admired by those who have seen it."

Terry Cussons, the church's warden, said: "With the renovation work now expected to be undertaken in 2016, we hope our church will be around for a few more hundreds of years and this record will itself be part of that history."