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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: All Saints (Helmsley)Country: England
NOTE: This site is 0.139 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Village: Helmsley
Map Ref: SE61188387
Latitude: 54.246870N Longitude: 1.062611W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Anne T visited on 10th Oct 2014 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 2 Access: 5 All Saints (Helmsley) (Hogback Tomb Remanant): We last visited Helmsley on 19th August 2010 (was it really so long ago?) as we’d heard a lot about this attractive little town but never been. There was an event on at the castle and the place was totally overrun with tourists. After a cup of tea and a visit to the church, we escaped gratefully.
This time, it was very different. It was half past four and the town was quiet. The church is open until 5pm, so we went in search of the hogback fragment in the porch.
It sits on its own on the east wall of the porch, tucked away as an almost forgotten remnant behind the gates to the porch. At first, it’s almost not recognisable as a hogback, particularly as the simple rectangular interlaced pattern was so reminiscent of the Anglo Saxon cross shaft we’d seen built into the wall at St. Gregory’s Minster earlier today. The stone looks as if it has been completely hacked about and is now a ragged rectangular shape. I had to come back and read my ‘Grammar of Anglo-Saxon Ornament’ by Rosemary Cramp to see what shape it might have been to start with.
For anyone planning to visit the church, the wall paintings, whilst modern, are impressive. It has a lovely atmosphere and there are various stations around the church were candles are burning in remembrance.
There was no guide book, but I have an address to send away for one, and there is quite a bit of history about the church on the Helmsley Parish web site.
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Early 10th Century Hogback tombstone in the porch at All Saints', Helmsley.
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