Out & About …

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

Tag: chapel

  • St. Hilda’s Chapel, Kildale

    St. Hilda’s Chapel, Kildale

    My penultimate day at the archaeological dig in Kildale which I have been involved with all summer. The site will soon be winterised until next year. It is thought the stone walls are the remains of a medieval chapel dedicated to St. Hilda, which was located through detective work by members of the Hidden Valleys…

  • Easby Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

    Easby Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

    I’ve had my eye on this Grade II listed building for some time but there always seems to have been a car or two parked in front. It’s a simple building of local stone with a Welsh slate roof, and ‘probably’ dates from the 18th century. It seems an odd site for a chapel. Easby…

  • Easby Chapel

    Easby Chapel

    With a blanket of fog covering the northern North York Moors, today wasn’t a good day for photogenic splendour. So my thoughts turned to the lowlands. I listened last week to a lecture by a University of York professor into medieval church records who revealed that at least eleven plague cemeteries were licensed in 1349…

  • Keills Chapel

    Keills Chapel

    Sited at the very end of the Tayvallich peninsula, according to Historic Scotland the Keills chapel contains 40 carved stones dating from early Christian to late medieval but alas today, because of this virus, it was all shut up. Apparently it’s typical of 13th-century churches in the western Highlands. It seems to have been dedicated…

  • Wesleyan Chapel, Bransdale

    Wesleyan Chapel, Bransdale

    In most villages and dales of the North York Moors, there will be a nonconformist chapel. Sometimes it will be a Wesleyan Methodist, sometimes a Primitive Methodist, sometimes some other dissenting religion. Often there may be two in close proximity. Nonconformity played such a major part in many communities it was often the dominant religious…

  • Lead Chapel

    Lead Chapel

    A departure from tradition. Instead of posting a photo from today’s wander around Coate Moor, I’ve chosen another one from yesterday. Seems a shame not to take full advantage of fresh photo opportunities. The Chapel of St. Mary is a delightful little church standing alone in a field and dating from the 12th-century. It was…

  • River Leven and the Hinmers Congregational Chapel

    River Leven and the Hinmers Congregational Chapel

    A few tentative steps down the village. With a heightened sense of awareness of, while not major obstacles, they are nevertheless unwelcome. Slippy rotting leaves, inconsiderate parking blocking half the pavement, dog crap, indeed the mere anxiety of a frisky dog even if on a lead. “He won’t hurt you”. A realisation of the problems…

  • Old Kirk Shore

    Old Kirk Shore

    Woke up to a sea fret but by the time I set off to explore the coastline north of the former fishing town of Stonehaven, it was well on the way to clearing. Stonehaven can just be made out through the mist. The coast comprises vegetated cliffs which form the eastern end of the Highland…

  • Scotch Corner Chapel

    Scotch Corner Chapel

    I’m currently reading “The Plot” by Madeleine Bunting. It is the story of her father’s obsession with an acre of land adjoining the old Hambleton drovers’ road as it descends from the high moors to Oldstead and the Vale of York. Although I’ve passed by before, it is not an area I know that well.…

  • Wesleyan Chapel, Bransdale

    Wesleyan Chapel, Bransdale

    Since the Elizabethan Religious Settlement in the late 1550s, the Church of England had been the official church in England. By the 18th-century new dissenting religious societies had begun to emerge who refused to adopt Anglican principles and practices. John Wesley, an Anglican priest, with his brother Charles led a Protestant evangelical revival. He began…