In a departure from musings about the environment and garden observations, today I’m going to show you the inside of Pickering Church. One of the Palm Sunday archers with Towton Battlefield Society had told me about medieval frescoes at St Peter and St Paul’s Church at Pickering. So, as we were in its vicinity on a trip to Helmsley, it was convenient for us to drop in.
Unfortunately, the sunlight made it difficult to photograph the frescoes. They do look better in real life.
Both my daughter and I were actually more taken with this stained glass window, however.
And I read the plaques around the church walls with interest.
It’s a shame that the headstones in the graveyard were not similarly well preserved.
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It’s amazing those frescoes are so well preserved! I love old stained glass windows – in Churches or Front doors or wherever.
The frescoes were apparently whitewashed over by Henry VIII, discovered by the Victorians and then promptly covered up again.
I suppose the whitewash actually eserved them!
Yes, it probably stopped the light from bleaching the colour out of them.
Fascinating frescos – I’m sorry about the lighting
Perhaps I can do a return visit on a cloudy day.
I held back from suggesting that š
Having seen Pickering properly for the first time and been charmed by it, we will definitely take another trip in the future š
That is good
The church I was both baptised and married in! I have spent many an hour looking at those frescoes. The gravestones are very old, my ancestors are buried there, some in the 1700s.
Wow! How wonderful you have such a personal connection.
Fabulous frescoes.
Yes, they are great, aren’t they. Thanks for reading š
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