This summer, visitors to St Albans Cathedral will have the chance to see the medieval shrine of St Amphibalus restored to its former glory. Located near to the shrine of St Alban, it is the first time in centuries that the Cathedral’s two medieval shrines can be appreciated together in their fully restored grandeur. St... Continue Reading →
I was very pleased to see my first project update (posted 11.02.2021) was read by so many people directed through from Twitter. It isn't surprising that the on-going restoration of the church's medieval stained glass is of public interest, so as long as these updates keep being favourably received during lockdown, I'll keep them coming. I'm... Continue Reading →
As life in the UK at the start of 2021 cruises quietly from one sombre month to another under lockdown 3.0, I expect that such a genuinely exciting piece of heritage news as the beginning of a major restoration project to preserve some of our country's best surviving medieval stained glass may have been lost... Continue Reading →
Wakefield district council describes its own post-industrial landscape as ‘a place of independent spirit, of rich heritage and culture’. With ‘beautiful outdoor spaces, historic woodland and country parks galore’, visitors are invited to ‘wander among the romantic ruins of medieval castles’. You may have to know your way around the area to tick each of... Continue Reading →
St George’s Field is a landscaped green space surrounded by the campus of the University of Leeds. When I'm working from the office (a regularity which feels like a lifetime ago) I often escape the city centre on my breaks to eat lunch here. When the student territories of Hyde Park, Woodhouse and Headingley are... Continue Reading →
Text and images kindly contributed by Steve Dunn (15.07.2020). All images are the author’s own unless stated. Figure 6. credit here [accessed 15.07.2020]. St. Thomas Porch - Salisbury Cathedral Gone but not forgotten Figure 1. Salisbury Cathedral. At the consecration of Salisbury Cathedral on the 28th April 1258 the assembled dignitaries must have viewed the... Continue Reading →
A lot of valuable research continues to inform our understanding of settlement and activity in the pre-Conquest city, but generally very little is known about the early churches in the central area of York. In the later 11th century York began to flourish and by c.1100 the number of new ecclesiastical foundations was well on... Continue Reading →
The old parish church. The Building Committee George Gilbert Scott and Edmund Beckett Denison need little introduction. Scott, the eminent architect and manager of the largest architectural office in the country, was constantly on the move, occupied with any number of engagements at one time; Beckett, the Victorian busybody and controversialist, who was “notorious as... Continue Reading →
The Fire By the time two fire engines arrived at 5:00am from York to assist in extinguishing a fire, which, when called for two hours earlier they had been told was spreading furiously throughout St. George’s parish church, the crowning jewel of Doncaster was a ‘heated wreck upon the floor’; ‘a scanty heap of stone... Continue Reading →
St. Margaret's is without any question one of my favourite rural parish churches in the East Riding (Yorkshire), and one of my most visited. I reckon my first visit to Millington to see St. Margaret's was a couple of years after Rita Wood visited in 2003, from which a report was written on the building's... Continue Reading →
