page_title: Pocklington
section_title: Religion
hierarchical_section_title: Pocklington / Religion
caption_attribution_description: English: Roman Catholic church of SS Mary and Joseph, Union Street, Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, seen from the northwest.
context_page_description: Pocklington is a small market town and civil parish situated at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The 2011 Census recorded its population as 8,337. It is 12.5 miles east of York and 22 miles northwest of Hull.
  The town's skyline is marked by the 15th-century west tower of All Saints' parish church.
  Pocklington is at the centre of the ecclesiastical Parish of Pocklington, which also includes the hamlet of Kilnwick Percy and outlying farms and houses.
context_section_description: Churches in Pocklington include:
  The Church of England parish church of All Saints, nicknamed the Cathedral of the Wolds. The Grade I listed building is 12th- and 13th-century and has a 15th-century west tower.
  Pocklington Christian Fellowship, formerly Pocklington Pentecostal Church, meets in the former Ebenezer Independent Chapel built for Dissenters in 1807.
  Pocklington Methodist Church, whose red brick Neoclassical building was completed in 1864 as a Wesleyan Methodist Church.
  The Roman Catholic church of SS Mary and Joseph, whose Gothic Revival brick building was completed in 1863 to replace a chapel dating from 1807.
  There are no non-Christian houses of worship in Pocklington, but Kilnwick Percy Hall, just outside Pocklington, is now a large residential Buddhist Centre called Madhyamaka Kadampa Meditation Centre. It runs regular Buddhist meditation classes.
caption: Church of St Mary & St Joseph
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