The lozenge shaped frame with the coat of arms painted on is a funeral hatchment.

Watching from NZ. Enjoyed your video 👍

Another peaceful, idyllic video. I enjoyed it very much. You're very familiar with all those plants and flowers, looks like you know all the names of them. The Garlic-taste remained all the way back home? Thank you as always! From Nippon

My wife and I have stayed at the White Lion at Cray for a couple of nights, and I'd highly recommend it if you want peace and quiet or enjoy star gazing. There's NO traffic on the road outside between around 8pm and 8am, and almost zero light pollution, plus it makes a great starting point for walks. Going south from the pub along the crest of the hill is almost level and gives you a fantastic view of upper Wharfedale - perhaps one of the best views in the Dales !

I live 10 minutes drive from Durham City, I love walking down near the river, Durham Big Meeting (Miner's Gala) is on 13th July, the streets will be full of thousands of people, bands and banners.

Love the old stone walls

Stunning church x

Just wow

lovely walk..very windy! I wish I could join you for a pint. Nice pub

Have you done the whole Cleveland way trail?

Thank you for this walk. Always wanted to see Durham.

How long ago was this filmed? Very lovely! I have a deep love for the countryside of England. ❤ thanks for sharing.

Good information 🙏

got it up on doves guide says dedication unknown Diocese- leeds 3 bells dated 1940 john Taylor & co

Thanks for the tour.

Wow what a beautiful old cemetery great find cant believe how old some of those graves were Well done May they all find peace 🙏🌷

Interesting to note that on the wall tablet erected in the memory of Capt 17th. Lancers Augustus Frederick Cavendish Webb, that he died in the hospital at Scutari where Florence Nightingale worked so hard to clean up.

Kind regards Rich. Welcome back and enjoy Euros football,we win we lose recent. Louth playing today. 22.39pm. Sunday 🌃 nite. Thanks for sharing. Kindly Niall O'Connell Eire.

Lots of these stolen, one time, Catholic churches, which were occupied by protestants as places of worship, are white washed inside, probably because of puritanism. When the white wash is removed one can find wonderful art revealing the tenets of the Christian faith.

Just wonderful!! Recently spent 6 weeks in the UK. My favourite thing to do was exploring old churches and their graveyards. The history is truly amazing. Thanks for your truly interesting videos.

I adore looking around old churches and reading the grave stones. Big church. ⛪⛪📖. Probably people buried underneath the church floor. I bet it's haunted 👻. Love the history. Thank you for sharing

Enjoyed that 😊

Kind regards Niall O'Connell Dundalk Ireland. Thanks Rich. Enjoy the Churches. Thank you for sharing.🥰❤️🇨🇮👍.20.48pm. Irish time. Sunday 🌃 nite.

Very old gravestones in the church garden!

Brilliant that Rich, and even better that your in my neck of the woods, a interesting church for you to check out, if you've not already, is the one at Dinsdale right next to the banks of the river Tees. I was over walking the wasteland at the Gar the other day and the abundance of wild flowers there was amazing, if you have a look at the vid I did, called wildcamping in the vango torridon, at the end as I'm walking back I stop and look at some flowers, I've no idea what they were but maybe you could help identify them ? Anyway I've subbed and will be watching your other vids today, Atb Mick 👍👌

New subscriber, love your channel!

Enjoyed it all thank you.

Great video. I love how you took the time to point out the various points of interest.

Greetings from Ireland. Loved seein Oratory of Our Lady.

Beautiful little Oratory to Our Blessed Lady. Marvelous it has survived to this day.

It is intetesting to know the names of the plants.

Beautiful little church. So many Catholic Churches were destroyed in sixteenth century. Pity.

There is something so special about entering a church and immediately feeling the peace that is the presence of the Holy Spirit. Even more so in places that have been home to centuries of prayer and worship. They truly are houses of God.

Please keep your plant identification bit in. It’s very interesting to see the plant variety in other places . I’m in San Diego .

You described a foxglove as a rosebay willow herb!

14th century! What a beautiful old church you found. I was amazed to be able to see the Norman font, it is still placed there. As you commented, the view of the church is so nice from the south east corner. Thank you for the video!

Hi there! I’m not a Botany buff but let me guess, the blueish flowers are forget-me- nots.

Yes, I liked, loved that. Loved the simple Stations and the perfect small chapel. Built by Catholics to say Mass in, worship God and like you, say prayers for loved ones in. May the person you are praying for health for be healed fully and speedily. It is so beautiful. Thanks from California.

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wow

beautiful place. thank you for sharing.

Hi from Japan. The church seems very romantic to me even more so because it is isolated. We have as many as 20,000 deserted temples out of more than 70,000 in total all over our country, which is really a serious problem these days. There seems to be no immediate solutions. Thank you as always😊

thank you so much for this video, yes unfortunately our English heritage is being lost too soon

Interesting video, thanks for sharing

Soon to become a Mosque

Thanks for the video. There is an article from the Darlington and Stockton Times on line describing the decline of the Hutton Bonville estate and Hall. All of the farms around there were part of the estate and you can imagine farmers and Hall family and staff attending the church.

Thanks. Just my sort of stuff. Look forward to more. 😊

That sign and the gothic style gravestones shows the church has been used a lot more recently than the Black Death but a lot of these isolated churches are usually found where there once stood a village wiped out by the plague, the fields around them are usually ‘hillocky’ where nature has reclaimed the land over the derelict village.

The church website says closed for repairs. There are some nice interior photos on the website.

The saddest thing about this country now I think is our loss of Christianity and our heritage. I don’t like saying I’m a Christian now because people look at you like you’re stupid. We’ve lived for thousands of years with Christianity and people think they all know better now. But I don’t think they do.