Out & About …

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

Tag: house

  • Mount Grace Priory

    Mount Grace Priory

    Most photos of Mount Grace Priory feature the late medieval Carthusian charterhouse.  The ruined church is an iconic image. The house is often overlooked. The former guest house of the monastery was converted into a private house in 1654 probably by Lord Darcy and substantially renovated and extended by Sir Issac Lowthian Bell about 1900. The…

  • The Pennymans of Ormesby Hall

    The Pennymans of Ormesby Hall

    My volunteering with the National Trust has restarted again after the lockdown although the use of Trust vehicles for transport is not allowed due to Covid precautions. This means that trips to Bransdale and the Bridestones will have to wait until we have all been vaccinated. So north to help out in the construction of…

  • Red Barn

    Red Barn

    In 1678, long-held Protestant hostility towards Catholicism was re-ignited by the Popish Plot which alleged a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II. Panic gripped the country. Anyone suspected of being Catholic was driven out of London and forbidden to be within ten miles of the city. In November that year, the House of Commons…