#lastingham

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✨😯 The wondrous Romanesque crypt at St. Mary, Lastingham, Yorkshire - a space where ancient crosses and carvings seem to emerge from the surface - reminding us of its rooted history.

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Yorkshire - December 2017

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St. Mary, Lastingham, Yorkshire

🌍🪐✨ St. Mary Lastingham, Yorks - out of this world. "This place - the journey to it, the aura, the echoes, the muted light, the Saxon remnants and the Romanesque - has lifted my anxious self into a more rooted sense of the world."

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Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 28 Nov 2025

When I walk back up into the nave, the visitor is there at the top of the steps, sat in a chair - as if he knew of the tenderness that was t

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Last week, in the hush of the Romanesque crypt at St Mary’s, Lastingham, I 📸 a 10th-century cross-shaft — Viking interlace entwined with Saxon geometry — a visual and decorative bridge between cultures and continuity.

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Heavy rain washing the colour away by Yorkshire Lad - Paul Thackray Another wet walk with very heavy showers with brief sunny intervals. So heavy it has nearly washed all the colour away This view is from the front of Lee Sheds which are located on Ings Lane between Lastingham and Low Askew in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park https://flic.kr/p/2k2YEB8

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Keys of Heaven (10): A Final Resting Place ~ Steve Tanham

Keys of Heaven (10): A Final Resting Place ~ Steve Tanham

continued from Part 9

The village of Lastingham, of the southern edge of the North York Moors, was a fitting place to end our weekend – both for its mysterious wells and also on the basis that the crypt of St Mary’s Church marks the final resting place of St Cedd. Following the fateful Synod of Whitby in AD 664, Bishop Cedd returned to his beloved Lastingham, the place where he had founded his…

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Keys of Heaven (9): blown down the mountain ~ Steve Tanham

Keys of Heaven (9): blown down the mountain ~ Steve Tanham

The welcoming warmth of the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge

continued from Part 8

My companions of the Silent Eye’s ‘Keys of Heaven’ weekend were waiting when I arrived at the Lion Inn. We had coffee and biscuits and discussed the options for our last day of the workshop. Everyone was looking forward to the visit to the celebrated St Mary’s church at Lastingham – the final resting place of St Cedd.

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Keys of Heaven (8): crosses at heaven's gate ~ Steve Tanham

Keys of Heaven (8): crosses at heaven’s gate ~ Steve Tanham

Reblogged from Sun in Gemini:

The traveller’s ancient friend: Young Ralph’s Cross

It’s seventeen miles long and crosses the ‘roof of the world’ in the heart of the North York Moors. You’d think twice about going there once the autumn has given way to winter. Local photos show the many times that groups of people have been stranded on the long line of its peak. In one case, in December 2010,…

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