Aerial Video of All Saints, Easington, Yorkshire
A church that leads to the sea, with a delightful C12th nave and an unusual ship grafitto on a column in the arcade.
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Aerial Video of St. Patrick, Patrington, Yorkshire
St. Patrick in Patrington is a wonderful creation of the Decorated period of Gothic architecture in the early C14th.
A Year in the Life: 23 March 2022
I’m there first thing and I feel anxious - there’s an overwhelming sense of inertia. I walk out into the churchyard to gather my thoughts and catch a dash of red text on a gravestone silhouetted against the rising tide at Y Foryd.
Aerial Video of St. Mary, Wirksworth, Derbyshire.
St. Mary in Wirksworth in Derbyshire has a remarkable layered history with material artefacts that represent the Anglo-Saxon period onwards.
Video: A day in the life of
A day in the life of...
Aerial Video of Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire
Pershore Abbey is a hidden gem. You can spend a delightful day there exploring the abbey and the town which has some wonderful Regency brick architecture (and a few timber-framed delights).
Be there: the Gothic vaulted interior at Pershore Abbey in glorious VR
The Abbey Church of Holy Cross or Pershore Abbey has a wonderful vaulted interior of the C13th with tierceron vaults that explode like fireworks.
Be there: the Angel Roof at March in glorious VR
The Angel Roof at St. Wendreda in March, Cambridgeshire is breathtaking. It's impact, for me, comes from the doubling up of angels on the jackposts and hammerbeams.
The Latch
During my visit, I enter the church via the porch which has an angel topped gate that houses a lock and latch that is a shrine in itself - a secular shrine to its maker.