Still in Yorkshire

There are many places of interest in Yorkshire. There are the great cities like York, with its ancient cathedral, and there are the small towns and villages like Whitby, Egton and so on.
We paid a visit to Pickering. Me to visit the castle and the parish church, the other half to visit...........shops.

The last time we came here, the castle was closed, and this time.....yep...closed again. It does become irritating to make a visit to a place to find the target closed. Once in Wales, we drove 4 miles along tortuous rough lanes to visit a cheese making farm. When we got there...closed.
And on the way home last Friday, we saw a sign to a waterfall and tea room. We drove down the narrow lane, came to a rough car park, had to leave the car there, slip and slide down a rocky path to find the waterfall, but the tea room closed.
There should be a requirement for proprietors to remove roadside adverts if they are not actually open.for the
Back to Pickering. At the time I had not known about the Catholic church, but the parish church was in the town centre. So I went in. It was worth the visit because there are medieval wall paintings on a good state of repair. Photos are here.

Of course, many of these churches were originally catholic till the Reformation. And the great abbey churches which still stand and are in use were catholic too. There are photos of a number of these elsewhere on my blog, when I was off round Britain taking photos for the TFP calendar.

Pickering

Parish Church

central aisle

medieval wall paintings

side altar

We had intended to have a coffee one day at Sandsend, where a little coffee shop sits overlooking the huge bay there just outside Whitby. But we never managed. Not enough time on a 4 day break to do everything.