Photo of All Saints Braham, Yorkshire number 1307
This church is an example of many English parish churches, built on the top of the hill above the village of Braham (which is just off the A1(M0 in Yorkshire. The use of the name All Saints implies that there was an earlier pagan church on the site before the christian church was built there.
The first church we went to was in Cornwall. This was an old church near where we were staying and was the church in which the author Daphne du Maurier was married.
photo number 1192 of St Wyllows Note the beautiful wooden ceiling, quite unusual.
When we were driving around Yorkshire following the footsteps of our ancestors, we saw many beautiful parish churches. Some have had time and money spent on them to clear out the vegetation that had overgrown the churchyard. an example would be St Columba where locals on community service orders have been put to work in painting the inside of the church hall and clearing the graveyard of vegetation.
Photo of St Columba, Topcliffe photo 1392
In others such as All Saints Braham, there are notices that say the cemetery will not be mown more than twice a year to "preserve" the native plants and animals. This causes problems for people including locals wanting to maintain graves of ancesters.
All Saints churchyard becoming overgrown.
Not all parish churches are in great condition. The parish church of St John the Baptist in Chester has been shortened over the years and parts of it are in ruins. Photo 0631
Photo of St Michael and all Angels church Coxwold ,Howardian Hills, North Yorkshire photo 1463. There has been a christian church on this site since 720AD and a pagan shrine before that. The current church (photographed) was built in the perpendicular style with an octagonal tower in about 1420.
Photo of All Saints church, Settrington, photo 1477
This church is unusual in that the main entrance to the church is directly under the tower. So when entering the church one passes under the belltower, past and between the ropes for tolling the bells.
Photo of St John's Dalton church photo number 1397
Unfortunatley this church was locked when we were there, so we do not have any more information
Photo of the inside of St John the Baptist, Kirby Wiske, near Pickering Yorkshire. photo number 1430 Note the unusual wooden box pews with doors. These were quite common in earlier times. The ones in this church have been cut down from the full size ones, possibly in the early 20th century.
There was a great building spree of churches in the 14th century in England. The traditional parish church of England dates from that period. However many of the Roman Catholic churches date from the late Victorian period when the law was changed so that catholics could worship in their own churches.This church in Maunby, Yorkshire is a Victorian era Church of Engaland brick built church, this village did not have a Church of England until about 1890
Finally one of the churches with strong family connections for Gary, All Saints Terrington, North Yorkshire. Photo 3354
It is thought that there has been a church on this site since the 7th or 8th century. Certainly there are parts of this church that date form the time of the Norman conquest. This church in common with many has a war memorial inside to honour the men associated with the village who served in the great war.
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