Church of St Michael The Archangel, Kirklington, North Yorkshire.
"Much of the church is 14th century restoration following its virtual destruction by the Scots following the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. The channel however is of 13th century origin. The tower and clerestory were added in the 15th century.
The arcades have arches of varying heights and shapes with a number of "grotesque" corbels. The roof beams of the nave rest of 26 angels. All the windows at Kirklington are medievil.
An effigy of Sir Christopher Wandesford of Kirklington Hall lies wearing Elizabethan armour, surrounded by the shields of his house.
Some of the carvings from Kirklington
"In Britain (Richborough), we find the divine name
Ogmia - that this
refers to a male figure is confirmed by the image of the god
accompanying the inscription. Perhaps Ogma(e) is the Irish reflex of
*Brittonic Ogmia, with the usually feminine -ia stem instead of
expected masculine -ios. At the time of the earliest Ogam (or Ogum)
inscriptions, learned Irishmen may have connected Ogma with this new
alphabet (the connection between Ogma and forms of magical writing or
tally-marking may have been somewhat ancient anyway). By the same
process whereby a root like Domun has a feminine i-stem suffixed form
Domnae, Ogum could receive an i-stem suffixed form Ogmae - whether or
not Ogum and Ogmios (or Ogmia) are connected linguistically, someone
at some time connected the names, helping to preserve a more archaic
form for Ogma." Chris Gwinn
© Brigantes Nation 2002