The Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Grace

Christians have visited this small church, known as the “Lady Chapel”, for centuries and continue the tradition through an annual pilgrimage[1] every summer on the Sunday nearest the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August.

When John Wesley visited the area in 1745, he wrote “I saw the poor remains of the old chapel on the brow of the hill, as well as those of the Carthusian Monastery, (called Mount Grace), which lay at the foot of it.”[4] In the modern era, Flora Dysart describes in her book "The Pilgrims’ Way"[5] how her grandmother, Flora Margaret Morrish, persuaded the local landowner, Sir Hugh Bell, to grant her a lease on the cottage adjoining the Lady Chapel with a view to restoration.

Restoration started in 1959 and on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 8 September 1961, William Godfrey Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster rededicated the chapel.

It also has three stained glass windows which feature the coat of arms of Queen Katharine of Aragon,[6][failed verification] the Scrope and Eldon[7] families respectively.

In 2016 Bishop of Middlesbrough Terence Patrick Drainey[9] founded a group, the Friends of the Lady Chapel, with the purpose of preserving and promoting the shrine.