Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

Day: 21 August 2021

  • St Hilda, Bilsdale Priory

    St Hilda, Bilsdale Priory

    A wet miserable day so I’ve had to resort to architectural interest. This is St. Hilda’s Church, Bilsdale, built in the mid-19th-century replacing an earlier 12th-century one. I didn’t look but there is a stone above the porch doorway, which reads: “COONDDIT ECLEE SIAAM WIILLELMVVS NOBLIS ISTAA OO INTEMERRATE NOOMMIINNE SCE VIIRGINNIIS HILDE” This evidently…