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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: All Saints Church (Weston) Alternative Name: The Weston Cross; Boughey & Vickerman (568)Country: England County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Otley Nearest Village: Weston
Map Ref: SE17744663
Latitude: 53.915517N Longitude: 1.731405W
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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 |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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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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Anne T visited on 31st Mar 2015 - their rating: Amb: 5 Access: 5 The Weston Cross - repeat visit with key to church! We picked up the key to the church from The Cock Pit Farm Tea Rooms, which is open from 11am until 4pm (summer hours – very popular with cyclists and great tea-cakes and tea). We were very kindly told that if we were back after 4pm (which we were) to drop the key back through their letter box at the rear of the cafe.
We went to find the remains of the Anglo Saxon cross in the north side of the chancel but found this to be a most unusual and interesting church, well worth the visit. Now Grade 1 listed, the present building dates from the 11th century. Locally called “the little church in the fields” it houses a three tier pulpit, the original box pews, a squire’s parlour and a fragment of 14th century glass. There is also an 18th century sundial (minus its brass top).
On the external north wall of the chancellor remains of a scroll can be seen below the window. Behind the mortar, the stone with this carving looks to be contiguous with the one above which seems to have some very weathered patterns on it. Higher up and to the left of this window are two stones which have squares incised into them.
My next mission will be to visit the Yorkshire Museum to see The Weston Man.
The Weston Cross, All Saints Church, Weston, This higgledy-piggledy, pretty little church, almost a patchwork of stonework from different times and styles, is situated in some impressively pretty countryside. Although I understood the church key was readily available from a cottage nearby, no-one was in, so I've had to email for the contact numbers to telephone when we return to the area in a couple of weeks. Parish Administration tell me there's also a key kept at Cock Pit Farm tea rooms on the
main road (opposite the turning to Weston Church), which is open Wednesday to Sunday, 11am to 4pm during summer. There is a small parking area opposite the gates to the stable yard within a few metres of the church gate, which the owner told us was OK to use whilst looking at the church. I'm really looking forward to going back.
In the chancel of All Saints Church at Weston, a few miles N of the border with W.Yorkshire, there is an interesting fragment dating from the 9th-10th century. It is part of an Anglian/Norse cross. The church dates from the Norman period.
This is a carving of a Viking warrior with a female at his side. He wears rather odd clothing and has his arms stretched out. This is quite obviously a depiction of Christ's crucifixion. Apparently, these figures were carved from an earlier Anglian cross, thus preserving the knotwork intertwining of the lower portion - allowing at some stage for a recut of the upper part - for the crucifixion scene. Sounds a bit confusing, but in the end an interesting bit of carving.
The Northern Antiquarian (TNA) also features a page for a cup marked stone placed on a grave within the churchyard - see their entry for Weston Churchyard, Askwith, North Yorkshire, which features a cup marked stone placed at the corner of a Christian grave. [Note: recorded as Boughey & Vickerman (568)?]
TNA adds: "This is a real curiosity. It’s found in the graveyard of All Saints church, Weston, where one of the graves has several small stones on it, with this small stone with the following cup-and-ring designs upon it. A plaque has been attached to it as a memorial to one ‘Susan Mary Dawson’. Strange… It was first written about by Sidney Jackson (1957), but where it first came from and why it has been placed here in a christian setting is something of a mystery." The TNA page gives directions for finding this church, together with a photograph and a 1958 sketch of the stone.
Note: TNA asks if anyone knows anything about the Dawson family which might indicate this modern use of a prehistoric grave marker - can you help?
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