Author name: Richard Clarke

Both Worcester cathedral and Great Malvern Priory church have fine surviving medieval misericords. Misericords were shallow shelves on the underside of hinged seats in the Choir of a medieval monastic church which allowed the allowed the monk a rest point while remaining standing as was required for much of the eight dayly acts of worship […]

Apologies again for the gap, have been staying at Hallow, just north of Worcester, for few days, no wi-fi and have been ill again, so didn’t get out much. Above is view north from cathedral precinct overlooking R. Severn and showing tower of All Saints church (Georgian) near to the five-arch Worcester Bridge over the

Nafferton church (above, view from south), again on a prominence above, here, the local lake. Nafferton, a large village just east of Driffield, stands at the base of the Wolds dip slope overlooking the northern carr-land of the River Hull valley. Stil a stop on the Hull to Scarborough railway.

Kilham church – large, mostly stone-built and atop a prominence near the centre of this large linear village which was once the market hub of the high Yorkshire Wolds.

Lowthorpe church (above from the s.w.) has a ruined chancel built in a very different style to the nave and must have been related to a small college of canons established here in 1333 and, along with other such colleges, dissolved in 1548. Church set in an isolated location, mostly surrounded by woods. Unusual royal

Harpham village lies east of Driffield on the southern edge of the Yorshire Wolds dip slope and in the valley of Kelk Beck, a headwater of the River Hull. It was the estate village of the de St. Quintin baronial family until the 1690s, while the church remained their mausoleum thereafter. The ‘Venerable’ Bede, writing