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Scenes of places near York * York Area Index * 20. Easingwold, North Yorkshire
The market place at the centre of Easingwold, a pleasant small town of mainly red-brick houses.
The George Hotel is a fine looking building and a good place for lunch before strolling up to visit the Parish Church of - which is well away from centre of Easingwold.
The Parish Church of All Saints and St John has its origins in the late 11th-early 12th century.
The west tower is broad and embattled.
Looking west down the nave with its sets of attractive Perpendicular arches (five bays).
Quite a nice brightly painted west gallery, which should be at times populated by singers and musicians!
Some sculptured heads - gargoyles- set into a window of the south wall.
Above a doorway on the way up to the church - "God with us 1664"
'The White House' is one of the most handsome buildings in Easingwold, built of brick and with five bay windows on the ground floor.
It is ....
Easingwold centre - the main street is called Long Street. Most of the properties were built in the 18th or 19th century.
The Town Hall (on the left) was built of red and yellow bricks in 1864 with a small 'modern' addition of a bell-turret in the form of a spire resting on a four faced clock. |
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