St. Andrew's, Grinton in Swaledale

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St. Andrew's Church, Grinton in Swaledale. "The Cathedral of the Dale"
There has been a church at this crossing point of the River Swale for over 900 years. The Church is named after St. Andrew, the missionary saint. The oldest part of the Church is Norman, though there may well have been a previous Saxon Church here. (‡pb, ‡pm)
Photographs & descriptions of the Church Click on a thumbnail to view the large photographs with descriptions. There are icons on the top gold bar to move around or back to select another gallery or to switch to a slideshow version. Hovering over a slide will tell you the size of the original used here and then left clicking will open that in a new window if you have Java enabled. Please be aware that these latter images are larger & higher resolution and will take a long time to download on 'dial-up'. Please note that all photographs are copyright and are labelled, and some are coded, as such. Bats in the Church		Parish Newsletter **(pdf)* Illustrated Talks (pdf)* The talks are on Mondays at 8 pm in Fremington Sunday School from June to the September. Please click here for the program of talks which is hosted on a separate site. Plans showing the stages in the building of the Church over the centuries. Names on the memorials within the church and the gravestones in the churchyard This section contains scans of a survey carried out in 1988 of all the memorials. It is reproduced by kind permision of Cleveland Family History Society who hold the copyright. The names on the Church war memorials**

External links, but please use your browser back button to return! The Parish web-site. News, Diary, Events and services A Church Near You. This site also includes current details of Services. Lots about the Church and information about the Fremington Talks on Jeremy's site. An 1896? photograph of the church may be found on the University of St. Andrews site. For more information and photographs, go to the Grinton page on the Genuki website and follow the 'Churches' link about one screen down. Out of Oblivion web-site. For the full technical details of the architecture detailed on the ADS site click here. ADS Record ID - YDNPA05-MYD4533

References used are indicated by a ‡ symbol followed by two letters and a link to the references page. The great majority of the facts in the Grinton Church section are from a talk and booklet by The Revd. Paul Burbridge and are used with his permission, for which I wish to thank him. ‡pb Unless otherwise stated, the photographs on this site are © Jon Dawson
* If you need the free Adobe Reader program for the Newsletter or Talks, click this link. It's a 30Mb download.

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