Medieval History
Restoration work has begun at one of York?s finest medieval churches to return a chapel to the way it was almost 600 years ago.
Officials at All Saints North Street want to restore the Lady Chapel to the form it took in 1421, when a hermit-like ?anchoress? in the church had seven famous visions of the Virgin Mary.
The church plans to replicate a 5ft 10in statue of Mary, which was larger than the average female height for the time, and to recreate the original tiled floor pattern, based on surviving fragments and old church records. The originals have worn and been lost over time.
Wardens have already found medieval oyster-shell paint pots and a coin that has yet to be dated and professional archaeologists began excavation work yesterday.
Click here to read this article from the York Press
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Medieval History
All Saints North Street church to be restored to 15th century form
Officials at All Saints North Street want to restore the Lady Chapel to the form it took in 1421, when a hermit-like ?anchoress? in the church had seven famous visions of the Virgin Mary.
The church plans to replicate a 5ft 10in statue of Mary, which was larger than the average female height for the time, and to recreate the original tiled floor pattern, based on surviving fragments and old church records. The originals have worn and been lost over time.
Wardens have already found medieval oyster-shell paint pots and a coin that has yet to be dated and professional archaeologists began excavation work yesterday.
Click here to read this article from the York Press
- On-site Archaeology Shorlisted For Rescue Dig Of The Year Award
York archaeologists have been shortlisted for an award after unearthing a mass grave of Cromwell?s soldiers in Fishergate. The mass grave from the Siege of York in 1644 at the former medieval All Saints? Church site at the junction of Kent Street and...
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So much of English medieval stained glass survives as isolated fragments.. At Warham in North Norfolk, is an extraordinary collection of such fragments, mostly heads. They are the heads of saints, angels, kings, queens, bishops and clergy...
- Looking Down (at Medieval Floors)
Quite often when we visit church buildings we are so busy looking up at the soaring architecture and the fine roofs, that we sometimes forget to look at the floors. St Nicholas, Salthouse on the north Norfolk coast, has a floor that...
- Medieval Spectacles
While I'm on the theme of All Saints North Street, here is a fragment of glass from another window in the church. It is a detail of the mid fifteenth century window portraying the Nine Orders of Angels. In this window each of the orders of angels...
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To celebrate the feast of All Saints, here is the east window of All Saints, North Street in the city of York. This church is a place that is very dear to my heart, I worshipped here between 1998 and 2005 and it was here that my vocation was fostered....