Out & About …

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

Tag: church

  • All Saints Church, Great Ayton

    All Saints Church, Great Ayton

    All Saints Church is tucked away behind the Conservation Club and only briefly visible from Yarm Lane. A brief glimpse then of sunlit sandstone as I cycled past on an otherwise overcast day. The church is Great Ayton’s original church. The main building is predominately 12thcentury but Pevsner, the renown architectural historian, suggests the walls contain fragments of masonry…

  • Askham Church

    Askham Church

    A glorious sunny frosty morning. Setting off to explore the Lowther valley, sandwiched between the Lake District proper and the M6. Limestone country. Askham church dates from the mid 19th century but is on the site of a church of the 11th. That church was dedicated to St. Kentigern, a name I never heard of…