Stanton By Dale - Revisited
w/e 16 April 2023
All of this week's pictures were taken with a Nikon D3300
The Village Trail around Stanton By Dale looks at most of the village in some detail
and a later visit for a wander around the
centre viewed some of the buildings again. That didn't prevent
another visit to the village centre where we enjoyed a stroll
(not really long enough to be called a "Walk") in the
spring sunshine. Outwardly nothing much has changed since those
earlier visits but here are a few shots of some of the buildings.
That's certainly true of the cottages on Stanhope Street where,
apart from the television aerials and replacement windows, their
outward appearance is substantially the same as it was when they
were built about 1790. At the far end of Stanhope Street the
same can be said of the much later installation of the Telephone
kiosk although, with the advent of the mobile phone, the telephone
equipment it once housed has been replaced by a defibrillator.
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The Stanhope Arms on the opposite side of Stanhope Street is
one of two traditional pubs in the village.
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The cast iron pump erected to commemorate Queen Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee in 1897 now has flowers planted in the trough
and is backed by an aubretia covered wall, both enhancements
from when it was photographed for the Village Trail twenty years
ago.
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Near the end of Stanhope Street, shortly before the end of the
village, a narrow Lane leads to the Middlemore Almshouses that
were built in phases between 1711 and 1904.
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Between the Almshouses and the Stanhope Arms, Church Lane, as
you would expect, leads to the church.
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The church is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels with parts
dating from the 1300s or earlier and with a fifteenth century
tower. Like many other buildings in the village, its appearance
has changed very little since then.
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We left the churchyard via a footpath through the fields and
made our way to Dale Road where we passed the other pub in the
village, the Chequers Inn. Although little has changed in the
village in recent years, this is one building that has been given
a facelift. The yellow walls of 2003 have gone, the name on the
wall is new as is the inn sign and a fence now surrounds the
frontage.
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The facade of the former Wesleyan Chapel of 1860 on Dale Road
has also benefited from a fresh coat of paint but the building
still shows its religious roots in its design.
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We returned to Stanhope Street passing the triangular village
green where the three main roads through the village meet.
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And it's in Stanhope Street opposite the telephone kiosk we saw
earlier that the Village Cross stands with a fleur-de-lys head
from 1632 on a mediaeval octagonal shaft. Now nearly 400 years
old and if we were able to come back in another 400 years, it
would more than likely still be standing here.
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