Category: Danby Wiske
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Danby Wiske’s Tympanum: Elementary, Said Pevsner
A one-way ride to Scorton, near Catterick. New territory. Looking for something worth a detour, I found Pevsner. Nikolaus Pevsner spent decades cataloguing every building in England worth a second look. He had noted the church at Danby Wiske. “The only Norman tympanum in the North Riding still in situ,” he wrote. “On it three…