tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1010755146424764952024-02-21T04:45:30.610+00:00+ ECCLESIASTICA +A Photographic Tour of
the Churches & Cathedrals of the
UKUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-80970633309090423142017-01-02T20:50:00.001+00:002017-01-02T20:50:23.155+00:00Icy Maiden, St Wilfrids, Kibworth, LeicestershireAfternoon visit to the local graveyard where some frost was lingering in the shaded areas. This old slate stone caught my attention with the frost outlining the detail<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid03zZrUafpuypUTB9tYZBSfXwKtGkxHsSisxSEksFVve9kQFmFZBIcm4tRX13SSiZiJVTzsgThmz6DP0K-yHQ1QKmHSMxMR5pxWrfGQtin7pIjyBAhSfSZKUaxDsm00OxbWFGJ5Dzuvvf/s640/blogger-image--32167634.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid03zZrUafpuypUTB9tYZBSfXwKtGkxHsSisxSEksFVve9kQFmFZBIcm4tRX13SSiZiJVTzsgThmz6DP0K-yHQ1QKmHSMxMR5pxWrfGQtin7pIjyBAhSfSZKUaxDsm00OxbWFGJ5Dzuvvf/s640/blogger-image--32167634.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-79173561866868099222015-01-19T09:14:00.001+00:002015-06-28T00:28:07.672+01:00St Patrick's New YorkSt Patricks Cathedral in the heart of New York<br />
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At the time of my visit most of the Cathedral was full of scaffolding and it was difficult to get a good shot which didnt include this. The light was also low but the Fuji X-T1 performed wonderfully well, even hand held.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-2708049168928821012012-08-25T00:00:00.000+01:002015-06-28T00:26:35.654+01:00<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 16px; margin-right: 16px; margin-top: 8px; min-width: 0px; width: 653px;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pulpit in Fotheringhay is one of the most magnificent in any English Church. Brightly painted and carved with intricate detail it balances on a very small wine glass base. The sounding board and canopy is equally impressive and can be seen in more detail below.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detail from the East Window in Beeby church showing one of the panels featuring various serpents. This window was created by Thomas Willement who lived from 1786 to 1871, a British glass artist, he was known as "The Father of Victorian Stained Glass". He worked as a glass artist between 1811 and 1865 having started work initially as a plumber and glazier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beeby church is now in the care of the Church Conservation trust and is open for visiting every day</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Beeby, Leicestershire LE7, UK52.6684999 -1.019317752.658870900000004 -1.0390587 52.6781289 -0.9995767tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-79977550401823623452012-08-22T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-22T00:00:07.326+01:00"The Black Unicorn"<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">St Peter and St Paul, East Harling, Suffolk</span></u><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All that remains of the rood screen from East Harling church is now at the west end of the church at the back of a group of pews. It is easy to miss but a closer look reveals the beauty of its lower panels. Originally it would have been brightly painted and this can still be seen. Note the unusual black unicorn in the middle of the panel with his golden mane.</span></div>
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The Clopton Chantry is a small room lying to the north of the chancel in Holy Trinity Church. Clopton lived from 1450 - 1500 and his tomb lies between the chantry and the nave of the church with a squint above (Middle left of the above image). There is amazing stonework in the chantry and around the upper parts of the walls are a painted inscriptions of poetry by John Lydgate which remains in very good condition. John Lydgate was a monk from Bury St Edmunds, who lived from 1370 to 1451. There is more information about him <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lydgate">HERE</a> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also around the walls are Clopton Arms painted on stonework. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a huge church which is more like a cathedral. It is more famous for its medieval glass and is open daily for visiting.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1Long Melford, Suffolk CO10, UK52.074356 0.7163352.054837 0.676848 52.093875000000004 0.755812tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-70835999246336837182012-08-17T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-17T00:00:03.862+01:00" Pews On Parade"<u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">St Mary and All Saints, Willingham, Cambridgeshire</span></u><br />
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Although these choir stalls don't contains a lot of intricate carving they still have a beauty of their own. I find this angle using a deep depth of field shows than at their best, with all the small carved heads lines up as though on parade.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More information about the church can be found <a href="http://www.oldwillingham.com/History/SMAS/Bywaters/Bywaters%20Text.htm">HERE</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Willingham, Cambridgeshire, UK52.314234 0.05790252.275406 -0.021062000000000004 52.353062 0.13686600000000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-5859509478656608092012-08-16T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-16T00:00:02.030+01:00"Natures spotlight"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>Saint Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes sunlight streaming in through a window can make photographing the inside a church very difficult with extremes of light and dark. In this case though the beam of sunlight was in the perfect plane to illuminate this memorial which sits nicely contatsed against the darker shadows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This memorial dates back to the 16th century and commemorates Mrs Kath Hutchinson daughter of the reverend Mr Lewis West who died aged 83 in 1726.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ranworth contains a superb rood screen, probably one of the best of all the UK's churches. Each panels features a different saint, all of which escaped damage during the reformation which in itself is unusual. This one is one of the best and features St George and the dragon.</span><br />
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Ranworth is usually open including access to the tower.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Ranworth, Norfolk NR13, UK52.678578 1.4867252.668948 1.466979 52.688208 1.506461tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-7235345788521818352012-08-12T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-12T00:00:03.612+01:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Marys, Wilton, Wiltshire</u></span><br />
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Wilton church is usually open to visitors</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Wilton, Wiltshire SP2, UK51.079018 -1.86259851.0590665 -1.90208 51.098969499999995 -1.823116tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-64202559729168084642012-08-11T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-11T00:00:03.879+01:00"Sharp Clawed Guard"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Andrews, Stoke Dry, Rutland</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stoke dry is a small village close to Eyebrook Reservoir in the smallest county in England, Rutland. The church is always open and is famous for its wall painting, ancient carved stonework and annual candle lit carol service. The church also contains a number of old monuments which have some great carvings. Above is one of them which features a small sleeping dog who has some very sharp looking claws. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stoke Dry Church is usually open</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Stoke Dry, Rutland LE15, UK52.563884 -0.73962752.5542315 -0.759368 52.5735365 -0.719886tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-49470575015892012462012-08-10T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-10T00:00:01.962+01:00"Stained glass details"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love to phorograph stained glass windows and enjoys magnifying my images on the computer to look at the detail of the painting. Sometimes when viewing a whole window there is so much to see the brain becomes overwhelmed, so its nice to pick out an rea of detail and remove everything else, like in the example above.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/7623584012/" title="St Peter & St Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk by Lord Muttley McFester, on Flickr"><img alt="St Peter & St Paul, Lavenham, Suffolk" height="640" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7263/7623584012_b629c4c59c_z.jpg" width="568" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is another example below</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my collection of church photographs I have a large number of images of Royal Arms. Often at the time of taken these it is hard to see much details. They are mounted high on walls in darks churches and usually have a thick layer of accumulated dirt hiding the details. Once home with the help of various tools in Photoshop and Topaz Adjust it is usually possible to reveal much more. This was certainly the case with teh Royal Arms from Holcot. Dating back to 1711 it features a lion and a unicorn supporting the arms with a wonderful background. A closer look though reveals that these two really are magnificent beasts, see below. Whether this was a little daring joke by the artist or whether he wanted to show the power and strength of these fertile creatures I'm not sure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holcot church is usually open for visiting</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Holcot, Northamptonshire NN6, UK52.319538 -0.8406652.309832 -0.860401 52.329244 -0.820919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-82353146309046714312012-08-08T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-08T00:00:03.080+01:00"Hundred Years Of Polishing"<u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Saint Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lecturns come in all shapes and sizes, from very formal functional structures to grand brass eagles such as this one in Fotheringhay in Northamptonshire. Obviously over the years this has been polished on a regular basis and is a credit to the cleanerds and church wardens. I love the build up of polish highlighting the gaps between the feathers.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fotheringhay church is a magnificent structure which is best viewed across the river from the south. There is a small layby near where the picture below was taken.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fotheringhay is usually open for visiting</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire PE8, UK52.526409 -0.43752552.5167485 -0.457266 52.5360695 -0.417784tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-8546315775828834092012-08-07T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-07T00:00:04.159+01:00"Sir Roger Smith"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Michael, Edmondthorpe, Rutland</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This church sits quietly in the small Rutland village of Edmondthorpe. Now under the care of The Church Conservation Trust, it is usually open and inside appears little changed over the past few decades. There is lots to see in the church but my favouritre is a large marble monument at the East end of the south aisle. It contains a number of carved figure in various positions surrounded by a protective iron railing and commemorate Sir Roger Smith who died in 1655. Other monuments to members of the Smith family are located around the church.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The church is usually kept open during daylight hours</span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Edmondthorpe, Leicestershire LE14, UK52.749592 -0.73008152.7399805 -0.749822 52.7592035 -0.71034tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-90555653879797821792012-08-06T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-06T00:00:02.022+01:00"Angelica"<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Mary and All Saints, Holcot, Northamptonshire</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Through the churches of England Angels can be found in various guises. In Holcot in Northamptonshire there is a gorgeous wooden reredo at the East end of the south Aisles which contains three carved examples. This is a close up the central of the three, which has wonderful detail and carving. These can be quite a challenge to photograph as they are usually hgihly polished and so with flash reflection can be a challenge and with windows usually to the right reflections from natural light can be a problem also. In this case I opted for a long exposure using a tripond which I undeerexposed and then used a bounce flash off the wooden ceiling which bathed the wood in a warm light from the brown timbers above. A little touching up in photoshop created the finished iamge. Below is another images taken at an angle which can also help with intrusive reflections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holcot church is usually open and contains some nice medieval wall paintings.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Holcot, Northamptonshire NN6, UK52.319538 -0.8406652.309832 -0.860401 52.329244 -0.820919tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-32386868587425133802012-08-05T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-05T00:00:00.630+01:00"I'm Watching You"<u><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">St Mary, Cavendish, Suffolk</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The chancel of Cavendish church has a wooden panelled ceiling with very decorative floral painted decorations. This covers the whole of the ceiling and must have taken considerable time to have created. It wasn't until I decided to process this image though that I became aware of the fact that the centre of each blue square as a carved wooden face. looking downwards. This is repeated at intervals throughout the ceiling.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently spent a week visiting Suffolk's churches and managed to photograph in excess of 80 over an 8 day period. I was exhausted at the end and had to invest in some new hard drives but it gave me a good reserve stock of images to use in this blog. Over the 8 days I saw some amazing things, but the one church which particularly sticks in my memory was Kedington and its array of skulls. They were in abundance and the above two were probably my favorite. Whether these were meant to look terrifying I'm not sure, to me they look as though they are sharing a joke to shouting obscenities at the gathered congregation. </span></div>
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I know it is probably only a month ago that the daily blog post included some stonework from Selby Abbey but I couldn't resist using another similar image. The last creature was fierce but this one is more like a cartoon "cheeky chappie". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to the Reformation our churches contained a multitude of medieval imagery which included the presence of Patron Saints in niches particularly above main doors. In most cases these were destroyed and the niches remain empty. In some though the Saints can still be seen, few are original, the majoity later replacements, In Kibworth the church is dedicated to St Wilfrid who can be found in niches above both the South and North doors.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unlike other more popular patrons such as St Michael and St Mary there aren't many Churches dedicated to St Wilfrid, so finding one complete with an occupied niche is something of a rarity.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/2501215229/" title="St Wilfrids Church, Kibworth by Lord Muttley McFester, on Flickr"><img alt="St Wilfrids Church, Kibworth" height="454" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3133/2501215229_23a138c342_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/4138022743/" title="St Wilfrid's, Kibworth, Leicestershire by Lord Muttley McFester, on Flickr"><img alt="St Wilfrid's, Kibworth, Leicestershire" height="425" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2752/4138022743_bbd8717ef8_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">St Wilfrids is usually open to visitors.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Kibworth, Leicester, Leicestershire LE8, UK52.5373658 -0.994814152.5277078 -1.0145551 52.547023800000005 -0.9750731tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-52674308648109171412012-08-01T00:00:00.000+01:002012-08-01T00:00:03.736+01:00"Painted Alabaster"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Marys, Cavendish, Suffolk</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking like the sort of thing that would normally be on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London the above reredo resides in St Marys church in Suffolk. Although at a first glance it looks as though it could be made of plastic it is actually painted alabaster and dates back to the 16th century. It depicts the crucifixion and a camera just doesn't do it justice. The detail is superb and not expecting to find it, it was a great surprise when i came across it. As a reredo it would have originally been positioned behind the altar but now resides of the north wall of the nave given an uninterrupted view.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was originally commissioned for the Private chapel of <span lang="EN-US">Athelstan Riley, in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span lang="EN-US">London and was made in Belgium by Flemish artists. The gold colour is gilding and the brighter colours painted. Many years ago many of our alabaster monuments would have been painted in a similar way colours which have been lost over the years leaving most plain white.</span></st1:place></st1:city></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The church is usually kept open for visiting.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Cavendish, Suffolk CO10, UK52.087083 0.63353852.077326 0.613797 52.09684 0.653279tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-7224227744282633602012-07-31T00:00:00.000+01:002012-07-31T00:00:00.271+01:00"Colourful Collection"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Peter, Nowton, Suffolk</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you like stained glass especially continental roundels then this is the place to visit. The windows are fantastic and fill all the windows in the church. They have also been restored in recent years and remounted without intrusive metal grids which I seem to find in most churches. I think there are around 84 roundels in total all remounted in very colourful Victorian windows. Although not apparent from the above image the detail in most is superb.... see below for an example. When I visited the church had a detailed guide book which described many of the windows in detail.</span><br />
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St Peters is kept locked but there are keyholder details listed at the church. As the church is in quite an isolated position this does require a further drive of around a mile.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Nowton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP29 5LZ, UK52.2109499 0.72247252.1914944 0.68299 52.2304054 0.761954tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-53659459474259573502012-07-30T00:00:00.000+01:002012-07-30T00:00:05.386+01:00"Enid Chadwick's Saints"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk</u></span><br />
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The rood screen in Kettlebaston was designed in the early part of the last century by Father Ernest Geldart and constructed around this time. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The painting as we see it today though isn't quite as old dating back to 1949 when it was added by Patrick Osbourne. The Saints are slightly younger being added a few years later in 1954 by Enid Chadwick from Walsingham in Norfolk.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> There are six Saints, three on each side. These are St Felix as a Bishop Holding a candle, St Thomas More, St Thomas of Canterbury with a sword through his mitre, St John Fisher holding a book, St Alban in a suit of Armour and St Fursey holding Burgh Castle.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a <a href="http://anglicanhistory.org/children/chadwick_year/">LINK</a> a an illustrated book also by Enid Chadwick which illustrates the church year.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Kettlebaston, Suffolk IP7, UK52.114416 0.86582752.104665 0.846086 52.124167 0.885568tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-101075514642476495.post-65631869337439543582012-07-29T00:00:00.000+01:002012-07-29T00:00:01.481+01:00"Coals For the Poor"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>St Mary, Kettlebaston, Suffolk</u></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above board dates back to May 1843 and is one of the many quirky signs which fill out churches around the UK. It describes two pieces of land which are let to Mr Makin, a church warden, for the sum of £3 and £2 a year respectively, the profits are which are to be given as coal to the poor at Christmas by the Churchwardens. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2012 £12 worth of coal is very little but back in 1843 it would have been quite a quantity and very much appreciated by the local poor. The donor remains anonymous and I am not sure how long this donation lasted. Probably not as long as the sign.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kettlebaston is a lovely little church which I came across on my way home after a day exploring local churches. It was open which is always a bonus.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Kettlebaston, Suffolk IP7, UK52.114416 0.86582752.104665 0.846086 52.124167 0.885568