Dr Allan Barton

How fantastic, such an atmospheric place. On my last visit I couldn’t help but sing a bit of plainsong in the crypt.

The entrance to the St Quintin vault in Harpham church in the East Riding of Yorkshire. As it says, it was constructed in 1827 and closed in 1887.

The head of Christ - glass of the early 15th century in the tracery light of one of the chancel windows at South Burlingham in Norfolk.

... and you too Chris, I hope you and Kath are keeping well.

The quire of Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, constructed from the 1220s onwards and now a rather romantic ruin. This Benedictine Abbey constructed on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery sits atop the headland in Whitby overlooking the sea.

The effigies of Sir John Cornwallis (1491-1544) and his wife Mary Sulyard. Cornwallis was steward of the household to the future Edward VI when he was Prince of Wales, hence the staff of office he holds. Brome, Suffolk.

This is all that’s left of Lincoln’s Eleanor cross in Lincoln Castle. It is the lower part of one of the figures of Eleanor of Castile. However, if they keep treating it like this it will end up damaged. A generator was shoved up against it and box wedged between the two.

The altar at Wold Newton church in the Lincolnshire Wolds is made from masonry excavated in the ruins of the Cistercian abbey at Louth Park - including two late 12th century capitals. There is a third one of these knocking around outside the church too.

A view from above of the chancel floor at Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk. In the centre is the early 15th century military brass of Sir William Calthorpe who died in 1420. Next to him are the two ledger slabs covering the graves of Edmund & Catherine Nelson, parents of Lord Nelson.

It is well worth the effort - there is a whole set of benches, a glorious medieval pulpit with the doctors of the church on it - and copious quantities of medieval glass.

That is a very interesting point, I hadn't clocked it, so thank you. It could equally be a local painter who didn't really know what he was about. Is the achievement itself even the Hammonds? More digging needed in the morning.

A procession on bench ends at Trull in Somerset (1530s), scattered throughout the church. Note the servers are wearing very short surplices over their ordinary clothes - their breeches and hose showing beneath. The right-hand figures are singing man & a priest wearing a cope.

It begins and ends with two Catholic formularies, that would have been illegal the year before the tablet was erected. It asks any 'gentill readers and hearers' to pray for the soul' of Anthony and ends on 'whose soul may God have pardon'.

A very rare painted armorial memorial at Saxton in Yorkshire from the reign of Mary Tudor. This timber panel commemorates Anthony Hammond 'esquire' of Scarthingwell, who died in 1554 and lies 'under the stone' that is presumably below where the tablet was first set.