Holme on the Wolds / Hougon

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "General view from SW with ivy" -- the church was demolished in two stages, 1862 and 1989; presumably this photograph was taken ca. the later date

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Image Source: digital image by Rita Wood of an undated photograph [pre-1989?] in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=15791] [accessed 17 February 2025]

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view of church interior - sculpture

Scene Description: Source caption: "a fascinating figure of a smiling soldier with elongated feet, wielding a sword. The style is old enough to be Saxon, though the sources insist on a Norman origin"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd

Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross in Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4589] [accessed 17 February 2025]

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view of context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Holme on the Wolds. There was a church at Holme-on-the Wolds but it was mostly demolished in 1862. Some of the Norman sculpture was moved to Etton."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marathon, 2024

Image Source: digital photograph 19 April 2024 by Marathon [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7764892] [accessed 17 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25834HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [mostly demolished 1862; remains demolished 1989]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Holme on the Wolds, Beverley HU17, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road B1248, 9 km NW of Beverley, 10 km NE of Market Weighton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of York
Historical Region: Hundred of Sneculfcros [in Domesday] -- Wapentake of Harthill
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century (?), Norman?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross & Britain Express for his photograph of the Holme-on-the-Wolds statue now in Etton
There is an entry for Holme on the Wolds [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SE9646/holme-on-the-wolds/] [accessed 17 February 2025] but it mentions neither priest nor church, and it is described as "Waste (by implication) in 1086" in the survey. The entry for the church at Etton in Britain Express [https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=4589] [accessed 17 February 2025] reports "a number of Norman carvings brought to Etton from the church at Holme on the Wolds when that church was torn down. There are two figures of saints; one is St Andrew holding a key, the other figure holds a sword. Below these is a fascinating figure of a smiling soldier with elongated feet, wielding a sword. The style is old enough to be Saxon, though the sources insist on a Norman origin". Citing from A. J. Barker, History of St. Peter’s Church, Holme on the Wolds (1990) the entry for Holme on the Wolds in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=15791] [accessed 17 February 2025] notes: "Barker says the church was given by Alice de Quintin to Nun Appleton priory in 1163"; the CRSBI entry (ibid.) further refers to Morris, J. E., The East Riding of Yorkshire, 2nd edn, London 1919: "Built into the present W end are three remarkable bits of sculpture... These carvings are perhaps late Norm." The entry for this village in Welcome to Yorkshire [https://www.yorkshire.com/holme-on-the-wolds/?srsltid=AfmBOoqu71tzTP7hdhFg2f9vpZiM3TxtIGExZulKbvcsnPwK5KvGpDXX] [accessed 17 February 2025] notes: "he church of St. Peter was rebuilt in 1865 but retains a 12th-century font."

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