Church Micro 4775...Bagby Traditional Geocache
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Church Micro 4775...Bagby
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The parish church is dedicated to St Mary. Located in Church Lane, the current building is a Grade II Listed Building designed by Edward Buckton Lamb and built in 1862. Camo container secreted away from the gate.
Bagby St Mary was formed as a chapelry in Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire parish and the church dates from 1862.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bagby like this: BAGBY-WITH-ISLEBECK, a chapelry in Kirby Knowle parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on an affluent of the river Codbeck, 2½ miles SE of Thirsk r. station. Post town, Thirsk. Acres, 1,795. Real property, £3,102. Pop., 302. Houses, 62. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Kirby-Knowle, in the diocese of York.
The name Bagby comes from an Old Norse personal name Baggi + Old Norse býr, meaning "settlement" or "farmstead". Bagby is recorded in the Domesday Book as Bagebi/Baghebi. (The name is shared with the village of Bigby, Lincolnshire, and the hamlet of Begbie, near Haddington, East Lothian)
The Church is built of stone with a slate roof. Cruciform but with centralised emphasis created by the spacious crossing which incorporates the short transepts and is of greater width than the aisleless nave and tiny chancel.
South porch. The exterior is dominated by the complex roof arrangements:- the pyramidal roof of the crossing, starting at a lower level to accommodate the wider span, is cut by the transepts rising through it and truncated by a turret with spirelet.
Interior:- wooden roof to nave and chancel with transverse arches on stone corbels, collars and purlins.
Complex crossing roof structure of intersecting arches, leaving room only for pairs of tiny quatrefoil lights set into each corner of the crossing. The other windows are 3-light with trefoil heads and simple tracery under pointed arches with the exception of the low flat-arched nave windows.
Tradition says that during the reign of Henry II, some 300 soldiers were stationed in Bagby to guard the district from outlaws and robbers. They seem, eventually, to have become loyal to Henry II and dispersed leaving Bagby in peace. This indicates how important Bagby was at the time. The outlaws made the Hambletons their refuge from where they swooped down on the Normans who occupied the lower ground which they had seized from the Anglo-Danes many of whom were now their serfs.
“If anybody would like to expand to this series please do, I would just ask that you could let Sadexploration know first at churchmicro@gmail.com so he can keep track of the Church numbers and names to avoid duplication.
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