Tag: ecclesiastical
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St Nicholas’s church, Bransdale
Volunteering today with the National Trust in Bransdale. Delightfully, I took the opportunity to have a look around the quaint St Nicholas’s church, perched at the head of the dale. St Nicholas’s church may be squat but it stands proud, casting a discerning gaze down the valley below. Its Grade II listing records that it…
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The Charnel House of All Saints Church
What a gloomy morning it was, with the moors blanketed in clag. However, as the afternoon arrived, so did the sun, and I popped down to the village’s All Saints church to photograph its alleged charnel house. I’ve posted about this remarkable church before, it proudly stands as the oldest structure in Great Ayton. The…
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The mysterious coffin of Stokesley Church
When the nave of Stokesley Church was restored in 1771, a coffin was unearthed and, as it was found broken, it was opened. It was completely empty; there was nothing inside except “sawdust and shavings“. The coffin was supposed to contain the mortal remains of “Elyzabeth Hornsby” as recorded in the parish register books: “Buryed…
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Alfred Winckley, Vicar of Newton-under-Roseberry, 1914-1917
St. Oswald’s Church, Newton-under-Roseberry, doesn’t radiate that sense of antiquity you get with some churches. Although some stonework of the the nave and chancel are evidently Norman, the present chancel dates from 1857 and the tower from 1901. A curious block of carved stonework built into the buttress of the tower suggests an early church…
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Dunglass Collegiate Church
Stopped off for a bit of exercise on the way home from Edinburgh and stumbled across this fine ruined church. The brown tourist sign pointed to ‘Dunglass Collegiate Church‘ which I admit I had assumed would be some Victorian church associated with a school or college. But worth a ½km detour. I now learn that…