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Escrick Park, Yorkshire was a dangerous place in the 1830s for two brothers. One, a game keeper was murdered, and the other killed by his own gun. Both in the same year.
Monument at Catton church.
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All Saints, Burythorpe, Yorkshire East Riding. 1857-8 by J. B. & W. Atkinson.
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I've been writing my new Parish Churches app. Claude has been helping me over the past few weeks. Great sense of humour:
Me: I think I might convert Parish Churches and write it in COBOL.
Claude: Excellent choice. The map rendering in COBOL should be particularly elegant.
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Phoning St Oswald
St Oswald, Kirk Sandall, Yorkshire. This is a Grade II* redundant church now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Its origins go back at least to Domesday, with a legend that the body of the Northumbrian king Oswald rested here after his death in 642
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Fortunately I was tweeting my visit and a kind Twitter user gave me the number of an alternative holder. I was able to obtain the key from friendly Mr Hodgson.
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While at the church I was repeatedly phoned by a withheld number, giving me a stream of abuse whenever I answered. I eventually switched my phone off. It was a most strange thing - an event not repeated before or since.
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Life-size Angels
The memorial to William Kerr, 8th Marquess of Lothian (d.1870), at St Andrew, Blickling (Norfolk), is the work of G. F. Watts. A painter turned sculptor, Watts made the recumbent effigy and the life-size angels. It is large, eye-catching, and unmistakably his.
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He married Lady Constance Talbot in 1857. They had no children.
Like his father, who died when William was nine, he was dogged by ill health. He died aged only 37.
Monument number 184 in my book 'Country Church Monuments'.
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References
Wilson, B. and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. (Harmondsworth, 2000), p. 400.
Various on-line sources.
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An Unusual Treasure in Lancashire
Sometimes the most ordinary churches can contain the most extraordinary things. Such is the case of Christ Church, Walmsley, Lancashire, a church built in 1839. In the south chapel is a 15th-century Netherlandish or North European predella.
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Additional observation by CBN: In Christa Grössinger's catalogue entry the painting is described as hazy and heavily varnished, with the faces obliterated. Clearly this is not the case now. The panels must have been conserved recently.
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References
Grössinger, C. "North-European Panel Paintings - A Catalogue of Netherlandish & German Paintings Before 1600 in English Churches & Colleges". London (1992). p. 238.
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