ROYALBOB
15-05-2011, 08:33 PM
Visited today, not a sole about, it's not dereclict but most of the graveyard is, nice little explore.
The site of St Michael and Our Lady has been a site of Christian worship and devotion since the earliest time. The Venerable Bede tells us that in advance of the Battle of Winwaed in 654 AD King Oswy spent the night in prayer with James the Hermit of Nostell. He promised that if he won the battle he would give his sister Hilda money to build an Abbey at Whitby, give his daughter Elfiida as a novice and provide proper dwellings for James the Hermit at Nostell. He killed Penda, won the battle and kept his promise. The Augustinian Priory of St Oswald was founded in 1000 AD. The penultimate prior, Alured Comyn, anticipating the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, had the church dedicated in Henry the VIII’s new Church of England. The church of St. Michael and our Lady was built in the perpendicular style of the time. Around the wall plate in the chancel is the inscription in Latin “Pray for the soul of prior Alured, who had this choir built in the ninth year of his priorate and in the year of our Lord 1533”. His portrait is to be seen in the central window above the Vestry door. The only addition to the original building is the vestry added in 1825
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Thanka.
The site of St Michael and Our Lady has been a site of Christian worship and devotion since the earliest time. The Venerable Bede tells us that in advance of the Battle of Winwaed in 654 AD King Oswy spent the night in prayer with James the Hermit of Nostell. He promised that if he won the battle he would give his sister Hilda money to build an Abbey at Whitby, give his daughter Elfiida as a novice and provide proper dwellings for James the Hermit at Nostell. He killed Penda, won the battle and kept his promise. The Augustinian Priory of St Oswald was founded in 1000 AD. The penultimate prior, Alured Comyn, anticipating the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII, had the church dedicated in Henry the VIII’s new Church of England. The church of St. Michael and our Lady was built in the perpendicular style of the time. Around the wall plate in the chancel is the inscription in Latin “Pray for the soul of prior Alured, who had this choir built in the ninth year of his priorate and in the year of our Lord 1533”. His portrait is to be seen in the central window above the Vestry door. The only addition to the original building is the vestry added in 1825
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5303/5723420094_301102973d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/royalbob1/5723420094/)
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ORGAN (http://www.flickr.com/photos/royalbob1/5722864625/) by ROYALBOB2011 (http://www.flickr.com/people/royalbob1/), on Flickr
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GLASS (http://www.flickr.com/photos/royalbob1/5723415456/) by ROYALBOB2011 (http://www.flickr.com/people/royalbob1/), on Flickr
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ISLE (http://www.flickr.com/photos/royalbob1/5723414994/) by ROYALBOB2011 (http://www.flickr.com/people/royalbob1/), on Flickr
Thanka.