2011

SD4989 : Alcove in wall near Helsington Church

taken 14 years ago, near to Brigsteer, Cumbria, England

Alcove in wall near Helsington Church
Alcove in wall near Helsington Church
I wonder why - is there something special about the tree?
It's not the tree (information provided by local historian Stephen Read):

"Re the tree at Helsington Church - it is not special but it is growing in the middle of a demolished cottage. If you go again you can make out the doorway, window and hearth in the walls and on the floor. This is from the National Trust's site gazzeteer for its 2010 Landscape Survey of the Sizergh Castle estate:
'NTSMR 21271 - Chapel House, north-east of St John's Church - possible rectangular building 12m x 7m with 2 walls upstanding to 1 3/4 m now joined to a field wall making a sheep pen type of structure just off the track leading from St. John's church. Two other possible relict walls now grassed over are approximately 1/4 m high. Medium sized tree in structure, wall curving round a yew tree on far side of wall. A building called Chapel House is shown on the 1st edition OS map in this position and 3 people were living there in 1851. The site lay just outside of NY landholding. Presumably the house was associated with the nearby church and was abandoned and demolished before the 2nd edition OS mapping. There are three possible window blockings surviving in the walls of the field. The surviving walls are 1.5 m high and well defined quoin stones survive on north-east corner of the building.' ".

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Category: Dry stone wall
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · House [6] · Helsington [5] · Sheep [4] · Near [3] ·
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SD4989, 14 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Karl and Ali   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Sunday, 1 May, 2011   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 3 May, 2011
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 490 890 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:17.6440N 2:47.0389W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SD 490 890
View Direction
South-southeast (about 157 degrees)
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