In the last part of our tale, we find Guy Fawkes, the brave Yorkshire man and experienced miner...
The Bonfire Plot – Part 4
"Hanged, Drawn and Quartered..." Only eight of the original Plot survived. On a cold Monday,...
The Bonfire Plot – Smoking out the Jesuits
Part 3: The True Mission of the Plot? Father John Gerard had already escaped by rope from the...
The Bonfire Plot: Part 1
"We must blow up the King and his Parliament..." In 1604 four men, Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter,...
The Bonfire Plot – Part 6
"The wondrous miracle of Garnet's straw." As Garnet's body was being dismembered on the block, his...
St. Cuthbert, Sessay, North Yorkshire
I'm drawn to William Butterfields work, I think, because it is so firmly rooted in place. The...
Baldersby St James
William Butterfield built churches, a lot of them, in England, in the 19th Century. They are among my favourite buildings. This is one of his, St James, Baldersby St James, North Yorkshire, finished 1857, only took a couple of years. Butterfield was building his...