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Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines Index 41c. Snape Village and Snape Castle, North Yorkshire
The Castle Arms Inn in the centre of the quiet 'sleepy' Snape Village with an 'exquisite' surviving red telephone box.
The main front buildings of Snape Castle.
It is a typical four corned-towered castle and Leland at the time of Henry VIII described it as 'a goodly castel'
On the right of the castle, a 100m down the road, a medieval window seems to have been preserved in an old barn! Immediately to the right of the main castle buildings is the Chapel of ? dating from the late 16th century?
Behind the main buildings of Snape Castle you can see the ruins of two of the four towers which formed the corner points of the original medieval castle.
On a nearby building (now holiday cottages?) is a carving of the coat of arms of ?
The Chapel attached to the east end of Snape Castle.
The east window and altar of the Chapel.
Some fine carvings above the altar.
One of the stained glass windows in the south wall held in by the late medieval? tracery, but the stained glass has something of a chequered history. They were believed to be 17th century, but they are probably 'cathedral glass' brought from Posen in Poland in the late 19th century by Sir Frederick Milbank. |
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