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Lead Chapel and deserted medieval village

Lead chapel is more famous for its association with the associated Towton/Saxton battlefield than as a structure in its own right.

Although no longer a functioning place of worship this beautiful medieval chapel projects an air of careworn age, standing as it does in a sheep field, surrounded by nothing more than mysterious and impossible to interpret lumps and bumps in the grassy ground.

From the air however, the ground mapping software reveals the true nature of these lumps and bums. Revealed is a medieval hamlet complete with crofts, tofts, enclosures barns and a manorial complex, now all gone, leaving just the chapel.

There is a story that Edward, earl of March, the leader of the Yorkist faction stayed in the village the night before the great battle of Towton on March 29th 1461. If that is true then the ground mapping software is revealing the very building that he sheltered in. 

The chapel is open to the public, and its history and the course of the battle are well signposted around the area.
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  • Survey Library
    • Medieval Castles & Villages >
      • Middleham Old Castle
      • Marton cum Grafton
      • Wharram Percy
      • Lead Chapel And DMV
      • East Tanfield DMV
      • North Deighton Motte & Bailey
      • Topcliffe Castle
    • Bronze Age Barrows & Enclosures >
      • Kipling House Farm
    • Henges and Barrows >
      • Nunwick Henge
      • Thornborough Henges
      • Cana Barn Henge
      • Hutton Moor Henge
      • Langthorpe Earthworks
    • Abbeys and Islands >
      • Jervaulx Abbey
      • Ellerton Priory
      • Little Ouseburn Tunulii
      • St. Cuthberts Island
    • Iron Age & Roman >
      • Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications
      • Newton Kyme Roman Fort
    • Battlefields >
      • Marston Moor
      • Agincourt Battlefield
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  • Jon Kenny
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