Jimthething
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November 2011
Hi guys, I'm new here so bear with me and let me know if I'm not doing things right!
This report is on a church in East Yorkshire which is now in ruins. I first noticed it about 8 years ago back when I was a truck driver delivering fertilizer to local farms.
It's unusual in that the church has become a kind of back wall to a farm (not surprisingly called Church Farm) since falling into disuse. The site always intrigued me so I went back there to explore a couple of years back, which is when these pictures were taken (Dec 2009).
The original church was very early for this part of the country, being built in the 12th century, mostly from local sea cobbles (it is a common building material in East Yorkshire as we sit on clay and don't have much else to build with).
The church got knocked around a bit during the Dissolution and eventually fell into disuse until it was rebuilt in the early 19th century by a local landowner, using some of the original stone and cobbles but being largely repaired with brick (something else we have a lot of round here is early brickwork, being sat on a lot of clay!).
It had about another century of use before finally being abandoned to the elements in the 1920s. The font went to Hull and the Bell to nearby Bewholme. The church is now sat roofless at the side of the lane forming the back wall of a cow shed. The graves are slowly being swallowed up by grass and moss even though some of the family names on them are still common in nearby villages. Sad really.
Anyway I hope you like the pictures. I got most of the above information from British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk
The location is landranger 107 (145,501).
I did have a close up picture of the notice on the door but I don't know where it's gone to!
Jim.
Hi guys, I'm new here so bear with me and let me know if I'm not doing things right!
This report is on a church in East Yorkshire which is now in ruins. I first noticed it about 8 years ago back when I was a truck driver delivering fertilizer to local farms.
It's unusual in that the church has become a kind of back wall to a farm (not surprisingly called Church Farm) since falling into disuse. The site always intrigued me so I went back there to explore a couple of years back, which is when these pictures were taken (Dec 2009).
The original church was very early for this part of the country, being built in the 12th century, mostly from local sea cobbles (it is a common building material in East Yorkshire as we sit on clay and don't have much else to build with).
The church got knocked around a bit during the Dissolution and eventually fell into disuse until it was rebuilt in the early 19th century by a local landowner, using some of the original stone and cobbles but being largely repaired with brick (something else we have a lot of round here is early brickwork, being sat on a lot of clay!).
It had about another century of use before finally being abandoned to the elements in the 1920s. The font went to Hull and the Bell to nearby Bewholme. The church is now sat roofless at the side of the lane forming the back wall of a cow shed. The graves are slowly being swallowed up by grass and moss even though some of the family names on them are still common in nearby villages. Sad really.
Anyway I hope you like the pictures. I got most of the above information from British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk
The location is landranger 107 (145,501).
I did have a close up picture of the notice on the door but I don't know where it's gone to!
Jim.
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