HDR - St Mary Lead Church, near Towton Battlefield, North Yorkshire
Tried taking this last year - better weather this time round and I've also improved my Photomatix technique!
The church was built in in the twelfth century and was part of the village of Lead ( now disappeared). This tiny 14th century church stands alone in the middle of a field. The bumps and furrows of earthworks in the field indicate the site of a mediaeval manor house, for which St Mary’s was probably originally the chapel. Only a short distance away is the site of the battle of Towton, ‘the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil’, which brought the Wars of the Roses to an end in 1461. Ten thousand men are said to have been killed, and Cock Beck, the little stream which you cross to get to St Mary’s, is said to have run red with blood.
HDR - St Mary Lead Church, near Towton Battlefield, North Yorkshire
Tried taking this last year - better weather this time round and I've also improved my Photomatix technique!
The church was built in in the twelfth century and was part of the village of Lead ( now disappeared). This tiny 14th century church stands alone in the middle of a field. The bumps and furrows of earthworks in the field indicate the site of a mediaeval manor house, for which St Mary’s was probably originally the chapel. Only a short distance away is the site of the battle of Towton, ‘the bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil’, which brought the Wars of the Roses to an end in 1461. Ten thousand men are said to have been killed, and Cock Beck, the little stream which you cross to get to St Mary’s, is said to have run red with blood.