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Route Into The Village |  Site Explanation |  Setting |  St Martin's Church |  Graveyard |  Pond Area |  Earth Works |  Cottages

Route In to the Village

Road signs to Wharram Percy from Sledmere

 

Sign post in carpark

 

Course of original route into village

 

View from path towards village

 

View from path towards village

 

View from path towards village

 

View to railway (in tree-lined valley)

 

Left over railway, right over stream

 

Bridge over mid-19th C. railway (disused)

 

Bridge over mid-19th C. railway

 

Bridge over mid-19th C. railway

 

Overgrown trackway over bridge

 

Stream from pond runs beneath railway bridge

 

Site Explanation

Site description

 

Site description

 

Artist's impression of the village

 

Village explanation

 

Site plan

 

Site plan close-up

 

Explanation

 

Setting

St Martin's Church, setting

 

St Martin's Church, setting

 

St Martin's Church, setting

 

St Martin's church, setting

 

St Martin's church, setting

 

Church ruins

 

Church ruins

 

Church ruins

 

Church ruins

 

Church ruins

 

Church ruins

 

Looking upstream at source of water

 

St Martin's Church, setting

 

St Martin's Church, setting

 

Graveyard

 

St Martin's Church, setting

 

St Martin's Church

Exterior

Development 10th - 19th Century

 

North elevation

 

South elevation

 

Church ruins

 

Wall excavation

 

Use of different materials

 

Northwest view

 

Western end St Martin's Church

 

Wall excavation

 

North wall

 

Line of old roof

 

Excavation of earlier walls

 

Excavation eastern end

 

Excavation on south side

 

Early stone carving

 

Early stone carving

 

Early stone carving

 

Excavation on south side

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

North wall and tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Collapsed tower

 

Interior

Interior

 

Interior walls

 

Pillar

 

Base of a pillar

 

Base of a pillar

 

Different types of stonework

 

Porch

 

Doorway

 

Inside the tower

 

Tower from the nave

 

The nave

 

Window

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Window detail

 

Graveyard

St Martin's graveyard

 

St Martin's Church, tombstone

 

St Martin's Church, tombstone

 

St Martin's Church, gravestone

 

Gravestone

 

Gravestone

 

Tombstone c.1906

 

Tombstone c.1820

 

Tombstone c.1834

 

Tombstone c.1840

 

Tombstone c.1846

 

17th Century tombstone

 

17th Century tombstone detail

 

17th Century tombstone detail

 

17th Century tombstone detail

 

Early 19th century tombstone

 

Early 19th century tombstone

 

Pond area

Wharram Percy pond

 

Wharram Percy pond

 

Pond

 

Medieval dam

 

View towards feeder stream entry

 

Stream flows into pond from valley

 

Village pond outfall

 

The pond is south of the church

 

Explanation of pond dam building

 

Earth works

Explanation of peasants long_house

 

Peasant long-house

 

Excavated plan

 

Excavation of peasant long-house

 

Excavation of peasant long-house

 

Earthworks

 

Earthworks

 

Earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Explanation of the barn

 

Excavation of the Peasants long house

 

Excavation of the Peasants long house

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Highlights to show line of earthworks

 

Cottages

(formerly late 19th early 20th century railway station)

Cottages and vicarage remains

 

Explanation of cottages

 

Cottages

 

Cottages

 

Explanation of station sign

 

Restored railway station sign

 

Restored station sign

 

Vicarage remains looking south to north

 

Excavation of vicarage remains

 

Vicarage remains looking north to south

 

Cottages

 

Vicarage remains

 

St Martin's Church, excavation of vicarage

 

Vicarage remains looking north to south

 

Vicarage remains looking north to south

 

Temporary residents in the cottages

 

Temporary residents in the cottages

 

Temporary residents in the cottages

 

Temporary residents in the cottages

 

Temporary residents in the cottages

 

Temporary residents in the cottages

 

Last remaining resident