Category Archives: Yorkshire

Middleton, Leeds – Railway, Park and St Mary’s (outside)

Posted on May 13, 2019 by admin

Our daughter Hannah was doing a morning’s on-call at her surgery, which isn’t far from the Middleton Railway in Leeds. We drove up the M1 and met her there about 1 – then she and Julie went off shopping leaving … Continue reading →

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York – All Saints, North Street

Posted on May 3, 2019 by admin

Our final church was All Saints, North Street – and I am sorry it has taken me so long to blog this final church. This church is on the other side of the River Ouse, and the first reference to … Continue reading →

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York, Yorkshire – St Martin, Coney Street

Posted on March 16, 2019 by admin

Now for church 4, St Martin’s Coney Street was the next one we visited on our crawl of medieval churches in York – https://stmartinsyork.org.uk/ I have walked past this church lots of times, as the City Screen Picturehouse next to … Continue reading →

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York, Yorkshire – All Saints Pavement

Posted on March 14, 2019 by admin

The third church we visited on our crawl of medieval churches in York, was All Saints Pavement. I have reached the stage of photoing the name boards. Fortunately this church has a good leaflet. The leaflet suggest this was probably … Continue reading →

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York – Holy Trinity, Goodramgate (again)

Posted on March 7, 2019 by admin

Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, the second church we visited on our crawl of medieval churches in York, was one I’d been to, and blogged before – http://www.northernvicar.co.uk/2015/06/15/york-goodramgate-holy-trinity/. It is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust, and has an excellent … Continue reading →

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York – St Olave

Posted on March 3, 2019 by admin

York University has a post-grad course in Parish Church Studies – https://www.york.ac.uk/study/postgraduate-taught/courses/pg-dip-parish-church-studies/. There is a blog too – https://parishchurchstudies.wordpress.com/. A chap called Rob Andrews is a student on the course – he is on twitter at https://twitter.com/roberrttoa – and he … Continue reading →

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Haworth, West Yorkshire – St Michael and All Angels

Posted on January 28, 2019 by admin

We had arranged to start 2019 by meeting friends at 11.30 for a ride on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. We overslept. We met our friends off the train at 12.30, then realised the steepness of the hill in … Continue reading →

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York, Yorkshire – Priory Church of the Holy Trinity

Posted on November 1, 2018 by admin

A afternoon in York on Thursday 27 September was an opportunity have supper with the kids – and do some book shopping. I left Julie in one shop and did a church visit. The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, … Continue reading →

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Northernvicar walks – Three Northern Cities, May 2018

Posted on June 26, 2018 by admin

1 – Derby. Julie and I voted, then went up into Allestree Park. There is a hard-surfaced track which the buggy can cope with. We enjoyed the bluebells. 2 – Sheffield. Friday 11 May and I had to give platelets. … Continue reading →

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Yorkshire – Mount Grace Priory

Posted on June 25, 2018 by admin

We’ve been in Northumberland for a week – the churches I visited I have been to before, but I had some lovely walks which I’ll blog next. On the way home (on Friday 18 May 2018) we stopped at Mount … Continue reading →

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