Dec 4, 2022
Tiny Thornton-le-Dale is often voted the prettiest village in Yorkshire
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Tiny Thornton-le-Dale is often voted the prettiest village in Yorkshire
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Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England, UK
(via Pockley | by Paul Thackray | Flickr)
A while ago I was researching dragon lore in our area and came across a reference to the Ryedale Dragon. This wasn’t a reference to a specific dragon but to a carved motif that has been found on a number of grave slabs and cross shafts in the Ryedale area. The design comprises a single bound dragon shown in S-shape with it’s jaws open. It is similar to the better known Jelling Design, named after the animal that decorates a silver cup found at a royal burial site in Jutland in Denmark.
I’d read that there was a Saxon grave slab carved with a Ryedale Dragon in the church at Levisham so headed off to find it.
The slab itself is tucked away beneath the pulpit, it is in two parts and access and available light mean that getting a decent photograph can be quite challenging. I think I need to buy a remote flash and learn yoga.
Whilst I was in the area I decided to call into St. Andrew’s Church in Middleton.
This lovely 8thC cross is on the exterior wall of the church, it is described as a distinctive St. Cuthbert-style.
Inside the church there are a number of stones on display.
A 10th C wheel head cross is decorated with the figure of a hunter with a spear and a short sword called a scramasax. There are also two hounds and a stag.
A 10th C wheelhead cross is decorated with a warrior in a pointed helmet, spear, sword scramasax, shield and axe.
An 11th C ring head cross decorated with knotwork and a ring plait.
A section of stonework decorated with a bearded warrior with a knife and scramasax. The second stone is a section from a cross shaft decorated with the head of a warrior.
Recent additions to the fabric of the church.
On my way home I decide to call into Lastingham, I have visited this church many times. The village sits in a verdant valley on the edge of Spaunton Moor. The crypt beneath the church is one of my favourite places, it is wonderfully atmospheric and contains a number of beautiful carved stones.
Sources
Yorkshire A Gazetteer of Anglo-Saxon & Viking Sites. Guy Points. Rihtspell Publishing. 2007
Stone illustrations taken from – Anglian and Anglo-Danish Sculpture in the North Riding of Yorkshire. W.G. Collinwood. The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Volume XIX via Google Books
Chasing the Dragon in Ryedale A while ago I was researching dragon lore in our area and came across a reference to the Ryedale Dragon.
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Summer Colours by Paul Thackray Via Flickr: Summer colours (late August) in Sinnington, North Yorkshire, England to brighten up these grey cold winter days. Sinnington is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park (Wiki) Road signs prevent a more frontal view of the delightful house overlooking the River Seven
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