Crayke, N Yorkshire - St. Cuthbert's Church - RP postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  St. Cuthbert's Church, Crayke, North Yorkshire - real photo type
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St Cuthbert's Church, Crayke, is located in the village of Crayke, North Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Easingwold, the archdeaconry of York, and the diocese of York. Its benefice is united with those of All Saints, Brandsby, and Holy Trinity, Yearsley.^[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.^[2]

The present church dates from about 1490 on a site probably occupied by a church in the Anglo-Saxon era.^[3] The church was restored and a north aisle was added by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley in 1862–63,^[4] at a cost of £1,000 (£80,000 as of 2013).^[5][6]

The church is constructed in ashlar stone in Perpendicular style. The plan consists of a three-bay nave with a north aisle and a south porch, a two-bay chancel, and a west tower. The church is battlemented throughout with pinnacles and gargoyles. The tower is in two stages, with a three-light west window in the lower stage and two-light bell openings in the upper stage. The east window has three lights, and contains stained glass by William Wailes. The font is from the 15th century, and the pulpit is dated 1637. The pews date from the 17th century. In the church is a late 16th-century memorial with recumbent stone effigies.^[2]

Crayke is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about two miles east of Easingwold

There is evidence that there has been a settlement here since the times of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.^[1] The village is named in the Domesday Book as Crec, part of the Yarlestre hundred and noted as belonging to the Bishop of Durham.^[2]

The parish was formerly a detached part of County Durham (until 1844), due to its connection with St Cuthbert and the Diocese of Durham, which owned Crayke Castle.

The seventh-century king Egfrid granted Crayke to the church in 685 to be used by Cuthbert on his visits to York, to which end Cuthbert founded a monastery here. Cuthbert died in 687AD. The monk Aediluulf wrote a poem Carmen de Abbatibus between 803 and 821 about the history of his monastery, and some scholars propose that the monastery, which was in the circle of Lindisfarne, was in Crayke. (For instance, Michael Lapidge in Anglo-Latin Literature 600-899, Hambledon Press, London 1996) According to the chronicler Symeon, the Northumbrian King Aelle appropriated Crayke and used it as his headquarters during the unsuccessful campaign against the Danes in 867. He also reports that when the congregation of St Cuthbert was wandering homeless during the seven-year period 875-882 the monks remained four months at Crayke.^[1]

In Norman times the Bishops of Durham constructed a castle over the monastic cemetery, though no traces now remain.^[1]

Links with Cuthbert and the bishopric of Durham are recognised in the dedication of the 1436 Anglican church to St Cuthbert, and the naming of the pub as the Durham Ox, (an allusion to the foundation myth of Durham).

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=yorkshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted