My Sheriff Hutton Church Encounter

Sheriff Hutton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire about 10 miles north-east of York.
The parish church is dedicated to St Helen and the Holy Cross and was built in the early 12th century and is a Grade I Listed Building. The chancel was added in the 13th century and there was other rebuilding work carried out in both the 14th and 15th centuries.
An alabaster effigy of a child within the church was long regarded to depict Edward of Middleham, son of Richard III and Anne Neville, but is now thought to be an earlier work and to depict one of the Neville family.
In 1974 Joan Forman had an encounter in this church at the location of the above effigy. In 1990 I was at Sheriff Hutton, and completely unaware of the encounter above had my own experience there
Come with me then to Sheriff Hutton Church and let me describe what occurred there
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[@indianriverhauntings2341]

Brilliant Chris . Beautifully told as always. Please continue to share these stories!!

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

loads more to come - i hear you groan in anticipation

[@barbaraprest783]

Thank you very much

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

Love it when you add newer pieces onto your old uploads, Chris. Giving a bit more background, improving the history and the account nicely. Makes you kind of sympathetic to whoever the spirit lady is or was. Great video.

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

i'm remaking the vides where i can - where i still havethe original files.. often this is just the soundtrack, or enhance the evp section or in one or two cases such as this one redo from start....hope its not too bad up there Paul, bad enough down here in Kent

[@commandingjudgedredd1841]

@@British-Hauntings-and-History Still "over there" in Canada at the moment, Chris. Weather where I am, is bitterly dry cold most days and lots of snow still lying about from previous snowfalls from (I think) November/December.

[@lesleymac4739]

Very interesting, thank you

[@elfprincessplume2515]

What a beautiful place! It would be amazing to find out who that tomb actually belongs to. It might make it possible to figure out who it is that is visiting it in spirit form. Maybe the child's mother? So fascinating!

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

thats a bit of genealogy that is way beyond my experience.. but you are correct, perhaps it could be done to within a handful of candidates at most...at least we can be almost certain that it is male, a Neville of Sheriff Hutton, and no more than a teenager, probably younger

[@eoindee7007]

Brilliant Chris, such a historic place 👏 👌. Outstanding as always. Well done buddy, hope you're all well 👍, kind regards from Ireland 🇮🇪 👍

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

i'd like to get there again before i'm too old, try medium contacts and take an evp session

[@eoindee7007]

@@British-Hauntings-and-History you'll get there Chris...keep the faith my friend 👍sending good thoughts and wishes 🙏

[@gaius_enceladus]

Great video - a lovely old church!
Here in NZ we have a few oldish churches but the oldest would only be (maybe) 160 years old or so - nothing when compared to the wonderful old places in the UK! I'm very envious!

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

too many over here take it for granted and an opportuity for graffitti and vandalism...but i suspect that moronicity is a global problen...too many of our old churches are locked up these days until services to stop thieves and vandals

[@sharonwinter8507]

Really enjoyed this, thank you

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

thanks for the lovely comment

[@debragoldberg8301]

Great video Chris we must visit here once again I'm taking me time life has passed too fast and I need more time hope all is well thanks for sharing this video keep them coming please 😘

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

how was Daytona?

[@rancidschannel3206]

Well done, like the history before hand. Looks fantastic. Richard the 3rd if the film " The lost King" has any truth, maybe someone Royal is visiting, even if its not the son, someone comes back. Glad you experianced it. Thanks for sharing it.

[@vespasian606]

I've seen that kind of truncation done before. In that particular case it was done to fit the effigy into a smaller space but along the way the sarcophagus was lost. If that holds true here then it throws up quite a few additional questions. A good place to start might be to measure the effigy and see if anything aligns with other spaces in the church.

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

or did it originate inside the church at all - was it originally in the chapel of Sheriff hutton Castle for example ? ...churches are great places to find curated collections of curios from the past

[@vespasian606]

@@British-Hauntings-and-History You could well be right. Richards interest in Edward seems to have been contingent on him living probably because of the insistence that legitimacy essentially lay with the first male heir and not someone who had just married into the line. This might account for the rough handling of the effigy. The Nevilles seem to have been consistently outmaneuvered by Richard and his brothers. I guess we'll never know given their devious nature.

[@British-Hauntings-and-History]

@@vespasian606 as i'm down in kent at the moment, i'll be delving into another Ricardian era mystery - Richard of Eastwell - and visiting the remains of Eastwell Church when the weather warms sufficiently

[@vespasian606]

@@British-Hauntings-and-History Look forward to that.