St Nicholas Church, Guisborough
We'd been in Yorkshire for one whole night at this point and were eager to head to Guisborough for the priory (which had closed for the winter that very morning!), however when parking we came across this lovely church just on the border of the priory and decided our luck was in. So we made it the third Yorkshire site of our trip (not including The Witching Post Inn) and it was a great start to a cold and vaguely raining November morning. Not much is known about this church or what stood on the site previously, but it is assumed that a church predates the one we see today due to the Domesday survey of 1086. This mentions Guisborough having a church, but no evidence of one survives so it may not have even been on the same site as the one in present day. 1291 brought the papal document which refers to a church beside Gisborough Priory (the spelling is intentional), which could be a reference to the church which stands today as this is beside the priory. However, the cur...
