So we were dropped off by the Theatre and told to be back there for 4pm.
We had a little over 5 hours worth of wandering, exploring and generally acquainting ourselves with this lovely town....better yet the sky was blue and the sun was shining.
The first place we headed for was St Mary's Church.
I looked for the steeple and followed my nose.
I will not say that there were no distractions along the way...there were.
Smells from a pie shop...the quaint little shops that do not exist anywhere outside Beverley.
How could you not have your head turned by these delights.
We did get to St mary's and were greeted at the door by one of the lady volunteers.
We were given a map of the layout of the church and given a little bit of detail about the place.
It was a very warm welcome by a lady who obviously enjoyed showing off the building to tourists.
St Mary's was a pleasure.
I like the inside of churches...I am in awe of their grandeur...and even small churches have some of this.
I love the stained glass windows, I love the carved stone, I love the polished wooden pews...and the kneelers lovingly embroidered by the ladies of the church.
I like reading of the great and the good who are buried beneath the inscribed stones that I stand on.
St Mary's can hold its own on all of those points.
The ceiling has been lowered a bit ( someone called the architect who sanctioned this 'A victorian vandal'..) the architect was Gilbert Scott who was responsible for the design of Liverpool Anglican cathedral...and the ceiling was lowered because of water damage(or so the story goes)...once lowered it was painted blue and embellished with stars...and this did not suit everyone....they wanted the vaulted ceilings back...but I liked it. It was different.
Then in the nave by the altar there are ceiling panels which depict the Medieval Kings....all done in Jewel bright colours...very sumptuous.....not really the stuff of Parish churches.
Then there was the sand sculpture of Alice in Wonderland.
Apparently Lewis Carroll spent some of his early years in Beverly and noted the carving of a rabbit with a satchel.
It is said that this is the inspiration for the Whte Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland...so the sand sculpture was a nod to that.
I think we spent something like an hour taking in the beauty of this church....and taking pictures.
I have to say St Mary's is far more impressive than the Minster...well inside anyway.
When we came out of the Church Spindles was asking about getting something to eat....this in spite of having a bacon butty on the ride to Beverley.
That lad has hollow legs.
He wanted to go for lunch at Wetherspoons...i think he is working his way through the menu.....so we looked for the Cross Keys.....and lo and behold it was there...right in front of us.
We had lunch...and very nice it was too...chicken breast salad for me....he had chicken strips...some kind of dip....mexican rice and the Apple crumble for afters.
Fully restored we set off on our travels again.
We wandered down narrow lanes looking at hand made chocolates(very nice they looked too) Pork pies and pork scratchings in a proper pork butchers.....I had to visit Paperchase...but did not buy anything(my hands were stitched into my pockets)
Eventually we landed at the Minster.
This is the larger of the two churches in the centre of Beverley...and yes it is an impressive building but it is very plain inside.
Some of the Stained glass windows have been replaced with plain glass.....and there was one stained glass window that had been replaced but with a modern abstract style of design...thi8s was among the original religious windows and it looked ( to me) decidedly out of place.
It is somewhere that you have to visit if you go to Beverley, but if I went back I would not go again....not that I didn't like it...I was just expecting more.
by this time it was after 2pm...we wanted to go to the Guildhall...there was an exhibition of Seafaring and fishing traditions on there.
But better than that was the 18th century Magistrates court.
what a joy to see...and you could put on a judges gown and wig and take pictures....I loved it.
It was almost three o clock...the day was slipping away from us.
We headed off to the M&S food hall with the idea of getting a bite to eat to take on our journey back home.
That done we chose to visit the Art Gallery in the Treasure House.....There was a photographic exhibition on there....a world wide competition of wildlife pictures.
Also a local artist had made sculptures of animals to compliment the exhibition.
We wandered round taking in these fantastic pictures....and it was Spindles who reminded me that we should keep an eye on the time.
We had fifty minutes in the exhibition and we were close to the place where the coach would pick us up so it had turne d out just grand.
We had a really lovely day...both of us enjoyed it and would very much like to visit again.
I hope you enjoyed coming with us
We had a little over 5 hours worth of wandering, exploring and generally acquainting ourselves with this lovely town....better yet the sky was blue and the sun was shining.
The first place we headed for was St Mary's Church.
I looked for the steeple and followed my nose.
I will not say that there were no distractions along the way...there were.
Smells from a pie shop...the quaint little shops that do not exist anywhere outside Beverley.
How could you not have your head turned by these delights.
We did get to St mary's and were greeted at the door by one of the lady volunteers.
We were given a map of the layout of the church and given a little bit of detail about the place.
It was a very warm welcome by a lady who obviously enjoyed showing off the building to tourists.
St Mary's was a pleasure.
I like the inside of churches...I am in awe of their grandeur...and even small churches have some of this.
I love the stained glass windows, I love the carved stone, I love the polished wooden pews...and the kneelers lovingly embroidered by the ladies of the church.
I like reading of the great and the good who are buried beneath the inscribed stones that I stand on.
St Mary's can hold its own on all of those points.
The ceiling has been lowered a bit ( someone called the architect who sanctioned this 'A victorian vandal'..) the architect was Gilbert Scott who was responsible for the design of Liverpool Anglican cathedral...and the ceiling was lowered because of water damage(or so the story goes)...once lowered it was painted blue and embellished with stars...and this did not suit everyone....they wanted the vaulted ceilings back...but I liked it. It was different.
Then in the nave by the altar there are ceiling panels which depict the Medieval Kings....all done in Jewel bright colours...very sumptuous.....not really the stuff of Parish churches.
Then there was the sand sculpture of Alice in Wonderland.
Apparently Lewis Carroll spent some of his early years in Beverly and noted the carving of a rabbit with a satchel.
It is said that this is the inspiration for the Whte Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland...so the sand sculpture was a nod to that.
I think we spent something like an hour taking in the beauty of this church....and taking pictures.
I have to say St Mary's is far more impressive than the Minster...well inside anyway.
When we came out of the Church Spindles was asking about getting something to eat....this in spite of having a bacon butty on the ride to Beverley.
That lad has hollow legs.
He wanted to go for lunch at Wetherspoons...i think he is working his way through the menu.....so we looked for the Cross Keys.....and lo and behold it was there...right in front of us.
We had lunch...and very nice it was too...chicken breast salad for me....he had chicken strips...some kind of dip....mexican rice and the Apple crumble for afters.
Fully restored we set off on our travels again.
We wandered down narrow lanes looking at hand made chocolates(very nice they looked too) Pork pies and pork scratchings in a proper pork butchers.....I had to visit Paperchase...but did not buy anything(my hands were stitched into my pockets)
Eventually we landed at the Minster.
This is the larger of the two churches in the centre of Beverley...and yes it is an impressive building but it is very plain inside.
Some of the Stained glass windows have been replaced with plain glass.....and there was one stained glass window that had been replaced but with a modern abstract style of design...thi8s was among the original religious windows and it looked ( to me) decidedly out of place.
It is somewhere that you have to visit if you go to Beverley, but if I went back I would not go again....not that I didn't like it...I was just expecting more.
by this time it was after 2pm...we wanted to go to the Guildhall...there was an exhibition of Seafaring and fishing traditions on there.
But better than that was the 18th century Magistrates court.
what a joy to see...and you could put on a judges gown and wig and take pictures....I loved it.
It was almost three o clock...the day was slipping away from us.
We headed off to the M&S food hall with the idea of getting a bite to eat to take on our journey back home.
That done we chose to visit the Art Gallery in the Treasure House.....There was a photographic exhibition on there....a world wide competition of wildlife pictures.
Also a local artist had made sculptures of animals to compliment the exhibition.
We wandered round taking in these fantastic pictures....and it was Spindles who reminded me that we should keep an eye on the time.
We had fifty minutes in the exhibition and we were close to the place where the coach would pick us up so it had turne d out just grand.
We had a really lovely day...both of us enjoyed it and would very much like to visit again.
I hope you enjoyed coming with us
