May 2025

Holderness Coast Studies 2. The land that came, went and came again.

Today’s image is from page 49 of Sheppard, T. ‘The Lost Towns of the Yorkshire Coast’, (London, 1912), a misleading title as be is concerned with those of the Holderness coast, lost over tome as a result of coastal erosion. The north bank of the Humber Estuary is part of the Yorkshire coastline (although strictly […]

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Church walks 4.

Another recent walks incorporating a visit to a parish church open to the public most days was around the part of Elloughton that includes the golf course. Starting at the road junction opposite the United Reformed chapel the route goes south beside the road that leads to the centre of Brough, on the east side

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Church walks 3.

A final, for now, view of St. Peters church, Wawne. Here showing the view west from near the chancel arch and showing the grand west window, two of the four south arcade bays, a couple of clerestory windows, octagonal font (late medieval) and the later pitch-pine pews and encaustic floor tiles.

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Church Walks 2.

Still a problem uploading photos (s.p.b.). St. Peters church, Wawne is composed of an aisled nave, clerestory, chancel and north-west tower, off centre, the base of the tower being at the west end of the north aisle. As with many churches in the Humberside region the building fabric varies both in time and in nature.

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