Osmotherley Village Green

Osmotherley Village Green is an open space in the centre of Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The settlement is centred on its small, triangular, village green, where its three main roads meet. On the green stand a cross and a stone table. A local tradition claims that the cross was associated with a 19th-century market, but no record of a market charter exists. The stone table was probably used as an individual market stall, but has also been described as a stone on which a coffin would have been rested. In the early 1750s, John Wesley preached in the village, and it is said that he did so while standing on the table. Both the cross and table are grade II listed.

The village cross is in stone, and consists of three mediaeval square steps surmounted by a plain 18th-century obelisk. The 16th-century table is also in stone, about 1.5 feet (0.46 m) in height, and consists of a slab on five tapered supports.

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Osmotherley, North Yorkshire

Osmotherley is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton Hills in North Yorkshire, six miles north-east of Northallerton. The village is at the western edge of the North York Moors National Park. Osmotherley is on the route of the 110-mile Cleveland Way, one of the National Trails established by Natural England.

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St Peter's Church, Osmotherley

St Peter's Church is the parish church of Osmotherley, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The oldest part of the church is the nave, which was built in about 1190, and retains its original south doorway. The chancel was rebuilt in the 13th century and again in the 14th century, while the tower and the south chapel were added in the 15th century. In the 16th century, a south aisle and porch were added. The church was restored in 1892 and 1893 by C. Hodgson Fowler, who rebuilt much of the structure, the work including the extension of the south aisle, enlargement of the chapel, and replacement of all the windows other than those in the tower. The church was grade II* listed in 1970. The church is built of stone with roofs of slate and lead, and consists of a nave, a south aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a south vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, a plinth, diagonal buttresses, a three-light mullioned and transomed west window, bands, a clock face, two-light mullioned and transomed bell openings, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The south doorway is Norman, and has two orders of columns with scalloped capitals. Inside, there is an early 12th-century cylindrical font. The east window has stained glass by Charles Eamer Kempe. There is part of an Anglo-Danish cross shaft, and part of a hogback.

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Osmotherley Friends Meeting House

Osmotherley Friends Meeting House is a Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), situated in the village of Osmotherley in North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building. The meeting house is a traditional stone building, built around 1723 (1723), it is owned and maintained by Teesdale & Cleveland Area Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). It is still used regularly as a place of worship. Meeting for worship is held on the third Sunday of each month at 1500 hours GMT. The Meeting House and a separate dormitory block are available for letting to organised groups and families, both Quaker and non-Quaker, and can sleep up to 25.

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The Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace

The Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace is a place of Marian devotion and pilgrimage sited in the North Yorkshire village of Osmotherley. Christians have visited this small church, known as the “Lady Chapel”, for centuries and continue the tradition through an annual pilgrimage every summer on the Sunday nearest the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August.

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