Currently browsing the category: Yorkshire memorials

2010

Poor Thomas Fairfax. You spend years going bravely into battle, doing your duty, nearly die from a horrible war injury to your shoulder, lead the New Model Army, win the battle of Naseby – and in the capital of the … More … →

2010

Like many villages, Sutton-on-the-Forest, near York, has a cemetery as well as its original churchyard. Among the headstones carrying the usual English names like Barker, Wood … More … →

2006

This memorial is in the parkland of the Sledmere estate, owned by the Sykes family. It commemorates the lives of the family’s dogs. The stone pillar has an inscription on each face.

This handsomely carved inscription commemorates Lambchop, … More … →

2006

I love the way these wealthy landowners put fabulous monuments all over the place. The land around Castle Howard is littered with impressive bits of architecture, and it’s similar on the Sykes estate in and around Sledmere. … More … →

2006

This handsome construction, dated 1840, is opposite the gates to Sledmere House, and has been included elsewhere on this site, in the page on Sledmere. More detail seemed necessary, particularly to include its lengthy inscription.

There’s … More … →

2006

At least one website I read stated that this cross is one of many that were erected to mark the stopping places of the body of Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I, when on her journey to her … More … →

2005

Churchyard of All Saints and St James, Nunnington, Yorkshire

AT THE FOOT OF THIS SLAB
LIE ENTOMBED THE REMAINS OF ANNE,
THE WIFE OF THE REV. JOHN KAY, RECTOR OF THIS … More … →

2009

During the years of the Second World War, when York was surrounded by airfields, aircraft crashes were common, as the many memorials testify.

In the porch of the church at Scawton, near Helmsley, a sign explains that … More … →