Monday, 23rd September, 2019.
The village of Lastingham lies amid the "soft hills" that fringe the southern edge of the North York Moors.
St Cedd, a missionary from Lindisfarne, founded a monastery here around AD 654, and the Saxon monastery was refounded as a Benedictine house in 1078. In 1228 the former monastic church became the parish church of St Mary's for Lastingham village.
Simon Jenkins, author of England's Thousand Best Churches, calls the Norman crypt of St Mary's church in Lastingham 'one of England's special places'.
10th century cross shaft.
A "hog-back" tombstone in the crypt.
Baa baa black sheep.
The village of Lastingham lies amid the "soft hills" that fringe the southern edge of the North York Moors.
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