THE parish church of St Helen's and All Saints, Wykeham, is celebrating its 150th anniversary on Sunday.

The event will be marked with a special service at which the Bishop of Whitby, the Rt Rev Robert Ladds, will be the preacher.

The church is unique because it is one of only three in the country which has the spire separate from the main building.

It was designed by William Butterfield and is one of eight in a group of churches, rectories and schools which were built on the Viscount Downe's estates in Yorkshire and Rutland.