St Mary The Virgin
Aug. 28th, 2007 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mistletoeAs promised some amateur photies of my mam's church. It is late Saxon, early Norman in design with some 18th and 19th century additions. Lord Byron was not married here to the local heiress. He was married at the Hall which is adjacent and is now a very upmarket hotel. The photobucket thingy had better work.
First, the altar:
This is not particularly old but the next one is. It's one of the original Saxon windows featuring wheatear style carving round the arch, so called because it looks like an ear of wheat:
I forgot the flash on that so here it is from a different angle with flash:
You can see the thickness of the walls there. Now three exterior shots: the North aspect with tower, the Porch with remains of the sundial, and a close up of the herringbone style bonding favoured by early Norman architects.
The rest are interior details: Georgian box pews, a stained glass window, a carved blessing from the shelf where the Host or wine were kept and two stone head carvings which are copies of the originals from the chancel arch.
This is not particularly old but the next one is. It's one of the original Saxon windows featuring wheatear style carving round the arch, so called because it looks like an ear of wheat:
I forgot the flash on that so here it is from a different angle with flash:
You can see the thickness of the walls there. Now three exterior shots: the North aspect with tower, the Porch with remains of the sundial, and a close up of the herringbone style bonding favoured by early Norman architects.
The rest are interior details: Georgian box pews, a stained glass window, a carved blessing from the shelf where the Host or wine were kept and two stone head carvings which are copies of the originals from the chancel arch.
