Stonegrave | |
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Location within
North Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SE657777 |
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Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | York |
Postcode district | YO62 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Stonegrave is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100 and so the details are included in the civil parish of Nunnington. [1] By 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population as 110. [2] It is situated in the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and 5 miles (8 km) south east of Helmsley [3] on the Helmsley to Malton road (the B1257). [4]
The village is noted for its church, Stonegrave Minster which has its origins in the 8th century. [5] The tower is partly Anglo-Saxon, with the main body of the church rebuilt during the Norman period with locally quarried stone. The grade II* listed church was rebuilt in 1863. [6] [7] It is part of a four-parish benefice, including the churches of Oswaldkirk, Stonegrave, Gilling and Ampleforth. [8] It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Stengrif, with the land belonging to Ralph Pagenel. [9]
Herbert Read, the art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, who was best known for numerous books on art, purchased the old rectory in the village in 1948. [10] Read died there in 1968. His modern art and sculpture collection alongside that of his wife's furniture were displayed at the grade II listed Stonegrave House in the village. [11] [12]
Stonegrave is also the burial place of Robert Thornton, who was a scribe and manuscript compiler. Due to his efforts, many works of Middle English literature have been preserved. [13]
Media related to
Stonegrave at Wikimedia Commons
Stonegrave | |
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Location within
North Yorkshire | |
OS grid reference | SE657777 |
Civil parish |
|
Unitary authority | |
Ceremonial county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | York |
Postcode district | YO62 |
Police | North Yorkshire |
Fire | North Yorkshire |
Ambulance | Yorkshire |
Stonegrave is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100 and so the details are included in the civil parish of Nunnington. [1] By 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population as 110. [2] It is situated in the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and 5 miles (8 km) south east of Helmsley [3] on the Helmsley to Malton road (the B1257). [4]
The village is noted for its church, Stonegrave Minster which has its origins in the 8th century. [5] The tower is partly Anglo-Saxon, with the main body of the church rebuilt during the Norman period with locally quarried stone. The grade II* listed church was rebuilt in 1863. [6] [7] It is part of a four-parish benefice, including the churches of Oswaldkirk, Stonegrave, Gilling and Ampleforth. [8] It is mentioned in the Domesday Book as Stengrif, with the land belonging to Ralph Pagenel. [9]
Herbert Read, the art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, who was best known for numerous books on art, purchased the old rectory in the village in 1948. [10] Read died there in 1968. His modern art and sculpture collection alongside that of his wife's furniture were displayed at the grade II listed Stonegrave House in the village. [11] [12]
Stonegrave is also the burial place of Robert Thornton, who was a scribe and manuscript compiler. Due to his efforts, many works of Middle English literature have been preserved. [13]
Media related to
Stonegrave at Wikimedia Commons