The Fotochurch Blog

York Churches

2008-05-14T11:28:00.002+01:00

The lighter evening have meant that we have been able to take shots later in the day, and a recent visit to York produced the following photographs:

York Minster
St Michael Le Belfry, York
St Matthew's, Naburn

Boston Spa, Thorp Arch, Walton & Wighill

2008-05-04T17:03:00.003+01:00

More Churches uploaded:

St Mary the Virgin, Boston Spa
All Saints, Thorp Arch
St Peter's, Walton
All Saints, Wighill

New County: Staffordshire

2008-05-04T16:59:00.003+01:00

Another new one - Staffordshire.

Again, just the one: St Lawrence's, Biddulph

New County: Derbyshire

2008-05-04T16:49:00.003+01:00

Derbyshire is the latest county.

OK, so far there is only one church, All Saints, Bakewell, but its a start...

Cathedrals

2008-05-04T16:45:00.002+01:00

New folder created: Cathedrals, featuring Diocesan Cathedrals, ,with images also still available in the relative County Folder

Leeds Churches

2008-05-04T16:23:00.004+01:00

These shots of three churches in Leeds were taken a couple of weeks ago, but have only now been uploaded:

Leeds Parish Church
St George's
Burley, St Mathias

Dewsbury, Ossett & Wakefield

2008-04-23T08:43:00.004+01:00

Back into West Yorkshire for:

Dewsnury Minster
St George's, Lupset, Wakefield
Holy Trinity, North Ossett
Holy Innocents, Thornhill & Savile Town

Sherburn, South Milford and Saxton

2008-04-17T19:26:00.006+01:00

Just into North Yorkshire, we find:

All Saints, Saxton
All Saints, Sherburn-in-Elmet
St Mary's, South Milford

All the churches are in striking distance of the site of the Battle of Towton, a War of the Roses battle of 29 March 1461 (Palm Sunday). All Saints at Saxton has the tomb of Lord Dacre who was killed fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Towton. He is said to be buried in a standing position along with his horse.

Newsletter Service

2008-04-02T16:47:00.002+01:00

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Churches in the Lincolnshire Fens

2008-04-02T11:22:00.004+01:00

Some interesting Churches from Lincolnshire Fens are now uploaded.

Starting in Spalding, we have St Mary & St Nicholas and St Paul's, the latter being another design by Gilbert Scott (of St Pancras fame) and having an unusual detached tower.

North of Spalding is St Mary's, Pinchbeck and St Laurence's, Surfleet. St Laurence's has a distinctive and unusual tower that leans 6 feet 4½ inches (1.94 metres) out of perpendicular -

Beyond Surfleet is St Peter & St Paul's, Gosberton, St Mary the Virgin, Sutterton and St Peter & St Paul's, Algarkirk

Churches in the 'Golden Triangle'

2008-03-25T11:11:00.007Z

Bank Holiday Monday found us in Yorkshire's fabled 'Golden Triangle' between Leeds, Harrogate and Wetherby; a term much favoured by local estate agents trying to ramp up house prices.

Anyway, photographs are uploaded today of ten churches:

St Peter's Arthington
St Oswald's, Collingham
All Hallows, Bardsey
St Mary Magdelene, East Keswick
All Saints, Kirkby Overblow
St Oswald's, Leathley
St John's, North Rigton
St Wilfred's, Pool-in-Wharfdale
All Saints, Spofforth
St Peter's, Thorner

Somerset Churches

2008-03-25T11:06:00.004Z

A new County introduced today - Somerset.

Initial images from Wells, which include the beautiful Cathedral and St Cuthbert's, which recently featured in the movie "Hot Fuzz" in a memorable scene when one of the tower pinnacles landed on top of the unsuspecting local reporter!

Wetherby, St James's

2008-03-07T08:46:00.006Z

Uploaded yesterday:

St James's, Wetherby

Who is St Ricarius?

2008-03-06T16:54:00.008Z

My recent visit to the Parish Church at Aberford caused me to wonder why the Church is dedicated to St Ricarius.

It would seem that Ricarius is a 6th century monk and hermit from Picardy. He was converted to Christianity by Welsh missionaries and established a monastery in Ponthieu. He was able to use money raised by the monestery to help lepers and the poor and to ransom prisoners held by England. However, how he became associated with Aberford is a mystery.

I am unaware of any other Church dedicated to St Ricarius (or Richarius) in the UK. Does anyone know of one?

PS - more photos will be uploaded later this month.

Lincoln, St Nicholas

2008-02-21T12:10:00.008Z

A spare 5 minutes in Lincoln resulted in:

St Nicholas, Lincoln.

St Nicholas, in the suburb of Newport, was designed by architect Gilbert Scott, who later went on to design St Pancras station and the Albert Memorial. Scott, who had made a name for himself at an early age designing workhouses, went on to design many churches and St Nicholas is typical of the Gothic Revival style adopted from Pugin. The church was completed in 1840.

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Geotagging & Location Map

2008-02-14T10:54:00.006Z

All photographs contain geotags in their EXIF data and their location can be viewed on a map in a pop-up window - just click "see map" on the slide page. By default, the map is set to satellite, but you can change this as well as zoom in and out as is the usual way with Google Maps.

A new feature now implemented is the Location Map page, which uses the Google Map API to show all locations on a single map with an alphabetical list on the right-hand side. If you click either the name on the list or the marker, a pop-up appears with a thumbnail image that links to the relevant slide page.

This page was created using a Google Spreadsheet and the Spreadsheet to Map Wizard found here.

Brotherton, Fairburn, Ledsham, Micklefield, Aberford and Wakefield Cathedral

2008-02-11T16:23:00.005Z

More photographs uploaded:

St Edward the Confessor, Brotherton
St James, Fairburn
All Saints, Ledsham
St Mary the Virgin, Micklefield
St Ricarius, Aberford
Wakefield Cathedral

Crofton, Featherstone, Sharlston & Wragby

2008-02-05T08:39:00.004Z

New photos uploaded yesterday:

All Saints, Crofton
St Thomas the Apostle, Featherstone
St Luke's, Sharlston
St Michael & Our Lady, Wragby (Nostell Priory)

Oulton, Rothwell, Methley & Airedale

2008-01-30T23:01:00.004Z

Another clear January day, in and amongst all the grey and rain, resulted in the following images:

St John the Evangelist, Oulton
Holy Trinity, Rothwell
St Oswald's, Methley &
Holy Cross, Airedale (Castleford)
The church in Methley is surrounded by huge yew trees on the South (sunny) side, so the shot is from the North-West corner.

Coventry - Holy Trinity

2008-01-25T10:01:00.004Z

Uploaded a shot taken of Holy Trinity, Coventry taken through the west window of the old Cathedral and converted to 'Fake HDR' using this method

Holy Trinity

Other similar shots may appear on Fotochurch from time to time.

Wentbridge, Kirk Smeaton, Badsworth, Ackworth & East Hardwick

2008-01-25T09:56:00.003Z

More uploads from the West Yorkshire area:

St John's Wentbridge
St Peter's Kirk Smeaton
St Mary the Virgin, Badsworth
All Saints, Ackworth
St Cuthbert's, Ackworth
and
St Stephen's, East Hardwick

Horbury, Ossett & Sandal

2008-01-21T09:30:00.004Z

New photographs uploaded this weekend:

St Peter's & St Leonard's, Horbury

Christchurch, Ossett
St Helen's, Sandal

Carlton, Darrington, Womersley & Pontefract (St Giles)

2008-01-14T20:45:00.004Z

Despite an unpromising start to the day, the camera gear was loaded into the car and a brighter afternoon and breaks in the sky meant we were able to nip off to Carelton, Darrington and Womersley, before nipping back to Pontefract for the elusive St Giles.

Photos uploaded here:

Carleton
Darrington
Womersley
St Giles

Wakefield - Chantry Chapel & St John's

2008-01-12T14:35:00.004Z

New photos taken and uploaded today of the Chantry Chapel and St John's in Wakefield.

Pontefract, Castleford & Altofts

2008-01-11T09:16:00.004Z

New photographs / Churches uploaded:

St Mary Magdalene, Altofts, West Yorkshire
Castleford
Hightown (Castleford)
St Paul's, Glass Houghton (Castleford)
All Saints, Pontefract