Category: Churches
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St Bartholomew at Corsham: Tombs and Tablets
Alien base rumours aside, there has been a church on this site at Corsham since the 12th century. Although little of this original church remains,…
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Stone Coffins at The Church of St Laurence at Corringham
St Laurence is a grade II listed church with Saxon origins and is jam-packed with different architectural styles and treasures.
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Corgis and Toothache at St Peter, Normanby Le Wold
Normanby means ‘The Norsemen’s Village’, first recorded in the Domesday book as ‘Normanesbi’.
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St Peter at Markby – The Only Thatched Church in Lincolnshire
Thatch the way, a-ha a-ha, I like it… There are very few thatched churches remaining in England, and only one remaining in the whole of…
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Visiting the Rudston Monolith
Rudston is a tiny village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, with a population that barely exceeds 400. Yet, in its churchyard, sits Britain’s tallest…
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‘Phwoar! Look at that masonry’ St Peter’s at Normanby by Spital
St Peter’s is a treat of a redundant church with interesting graves and terribly fancy stonework.
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Walt Disney’s Ancestral Knights at Kingerby
The finest treasures are often found in the most unexpected places.
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Flayed Saints, Weeping Graves and Robin Hood at St Bartholomew the Great, London
St Bartholomew was founded in 1123 by Rahere (just the one name, like Beyonce…), a courtier of King Henry I.
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Let’s Visit a Finnish Plague Park
‘Ruttopuisto’ means ‘plague park’, and is the final resting place of thousands of Finns who died in the great plague of 1710.
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Tea With a Martyr at St Crux
There are few things in life I love more than a good church, a good grave, a cuppa and a slice of cake.
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Grand Tombs at St Peter’s Church, Chillingham
In the shadows of Chillingham Castle sits a tiny, unassuming church, framed by woodland and centuries-old headstones.
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A Trip to St Peter’s at Raithby cum Maltby
Raithby cum Maltby is a tiny civil parish in East Lindsey’s Lincolnshire Wolds, just south of the market town of Louth.
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A Day at All Saints, Holton-cum-Beckering
Holton cum Beckering is a tiny village 6 miles south of Market Rasen with a population of 140 at the 2001 census.
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Treasures of St Mary’s Church, Barton
I must sound like a broken record, but I truly believe that every church has a fascinating history, or a weird little artefact hidden inside,…
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“I did not give them willingly”: The Friesthorpe Window
A small rural church in Friesthorpe, Lincolnshire holds one of the most poignant memorials to the sacrifices of war in the form of a beautiful…
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A Trip to Avebury Church: Henge Not Included
Sitting in the metaphorical shadow of Avebury’s mystical stone circle is the little modest structure of St James’ Church.
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Lancaster Priory and the Headless White Lady
Lancaster Priory and the Parish Church of Lancaster are located right next to a medieval castle, on top of a hill overlooking the city.
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Going Underground: Berlin Cathedral Crypt
Ever have an existential crisis and hop on a plane to Germany to look at dead monarchs? Same mate, same.
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Legsby St Thomas: Beef Rolls and Busy Farmers
Legsby St Thomas: A place for worship, farmers, locked chest mysteries and grave stories waiting to be told.
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St Peter’s Church, Smallburgh: Tiny Shoes and Rood Screens
The rood screen at Smallburgh is arguably the main focal point of the church today.
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The Thief’s Arm of Prague
The 400 year old arm, impaled on a meat hook, serves as a warning to all future criminals considering robbing the church.
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Two Towers and an Eccentric Priest: Booton St Michael
Lying in such an isolated place, Booton St Michael has come to be known as ‘the cathedral of the fields’.
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Birdcage Walk: Remnants of a Bombed Churchyard
While the church is long gone, its churchyard remains, with tombs and monuments hidden behind metal railings and overgrown bushes. Although the site seems closed…
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Medieval Secrets at St Faith’s Church, Little Witchingham
Medieval wall paintings. Grand, loud, bright and famous. They fill the pages of guidebooks, celebrated by tourists for centuries. They are never forgotten. Right?
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Hudds, Huds and Hudes: Graveside Shelters of Yesteryear
Shelters may seem to have been a rather excessive addition to the world of ecclesiastical furniture, after all; what’s a little rain between a vicar…
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Tiles and Victoriana at St Martin’s Church, Waithe.
By a small turning off the A16, sits a little shrine to the Victorian Gothic.
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Tudor Effigies and Memento Mori at Snarford
When visiting the church and circling these monuments, it seems a miracle there was ever any room for religious services…
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All Saints Church Snelland: Where Lightning Splits the Dead
Nestled in the country lanes by Wragby, Lincolnshire, flanked by yew trees and heavy swags of long-abandoned cobwebs, sits the tiny church of All Saints…
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Monuments and Medieval Minstrels at Beverley Minster
At the heart of the community lies Beverley Minster; an enormous, gleaming monolith surrounded by little rows of houses, tightly packed like rows of teeth.
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Poppyland – Churchyard Treats in the Heart of Norfolk
When travelling through the Norfolk countryside, if you were to stop at every church you passed, you’d be forced to invest in property and inform…
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