Your Bike in front of a Church

[briantrumpet]

Last day in France till July... at Aucelon:

 

[biggs682]

One from this morning's ride

Mears Ashby church.

 

[Dave 123]

St Andrews, Toft, Cambs.

 

[Jenkins]

Out again today, and this one is from Tunstall - St. Michael & All Angels Church

 

[swansonj]

Surprisingly, I didn't have an existing photo of my bike in front of this particular church - "surprisingly" because it's the church we were married in twenty-something years ago and both our children were baptised in.

 

[biggs682]

One from this morning's ride

War memorial at Hackleton and Piddington church in the background.

 

[Dave 123]

Holy Trinity, Meldreth, Cambs.
The main body of the church is constructed from small flint and other stones & bits and bobs as is the style round here. There is no natural large building stone in these parts. The later front porch addition looks heavy and foreboding.

 

[biggs682]

One from this morning's ride

Burton Latimer church

 

[briantrumpet]

Or rather, "My bike inside a church". Buckfastleigh: it burnt down in 1992.

 

[briantrumpet]

Stockleigh Pomeroy:

I guessed that it had been heavily restored in the 19th century, but I'm going to quote the full Grade 1 listing details, as it makes you realise just how much history is tucked away right under our noses.

Parish church. C13, extended 1453 and restored 1863 by W White. Red sandstone and volcanic trap. Rubble walls with freestone dressings of volcanic trap, Beerstone and sandstone, dry slate roof laid in bands of different sizes, crested ridge tiles and coped gable ends. Nave, chancel, west tower, north aisle and south porch. C15 tower of 1 stage with plinth, string under parapet with battlements and square stair turret to east end of north side rising to slightly higher level. West doorway is C19 replacement; C15, 3-light Perpendicular west window with hoodmould over; C15 3-
light trefoil headed windows with slate louvres and hoodmoulds to bell storey to east, west and south. C15 north aisle has original C15 Perpendicular 3-light windows of Beerstone, 3 to north wall and 1 to each coped gable end with hoodmould. Chancel projects beyond north aisle and has weathered diagonal corner buttresses and coped gable. C13 walling survives to string level of gable end and retains single lancet to blocked undercroft. 3-stepped lancets over string are C19. South wall of chancel is original to window head level with plinth, 2 volcanic trap lancets and weathered buttress between. South wall of nave greatly rebuilt C19, has 2-light C19 window to left of porch and 3-light C19 window to right, both in late C13 style with hoodmoulds. Porch, late C19 with coped gable and diagonal weathered corner buttresses, has C19 doorway with ordered pointed arch and relieving arch over. Inner south doorway is reconstruction of late Norman doorway incorporating heavy roll moulded jambs and inner arch, bullnosed impost stones and outer arch with alternate billet mouldings. Relieving arch over. C19 arch braced roof.

Interior of church: C15 oak waggon roof to north aisle with cavetto and ovolo-moulded ribs and under purlins. C19 crown post and tie beams, arch braced roof to nave. C19 arch braced roof to chancel with moulded corbels. Pointed rubble tower arch with coved impost stones; original oak door to tower stair; painted rear arches to aisle windows; original rear arches to chancel south windows; C19 engaged shafts and rear arches to chancel east windows; C13 trefoil headed piscina in south wall of chancel; Medieval glass in centre light of east window of aisle and fine white limestone C15 standard B (Pevsner) 4-bay arcade with steep 4-centred arches carried on capitals with alternate plant or mermen and sea monster undercut carvings. Fittings: C19 font with quatrefoils, coats of arms and Tudor flower carving; fine C15 Perpendicular oak tower screen (possibly resited rood screen) with standard A (Pevsner) mouldings; some Victorian reconstruction to north end but traces of original paint to original part. Early-mid C17 oak polygonal pulpit on original octagonal goblet base with Renaissance arabesques and carved masks to sides and trailing vine carving to handrail. 15 C16 oak bench ends with Renaissance carvings most with original benches to north aisle; 11 more similar bench ends with Victorian benches to nave and many Victorian copies. In tower a painted board of 1699 with names of benefactors to the poor of the parish since.
Some simple wall and many C17 and C18 headstones used as flooring including one to Thomas Foxe, sometime Minister of Davidstowe, d.1685 and wife of Obadiah Foxe, Rector of the parish, 1683.

 

[biggs682]

Ribble 653 bike Sywell church this morning

 

[biggs682]

One from this morning's ride

Earls Barton Baptist chapel.

 

[biggs682]

One from this morning's ride

Rushden heritage chapel and halls .

 

[biggs682]

Wilby church and my latest R.E.W on this morning's ride .

 

[uphillstruggler]

@Drago @biggs682 you guys may recognise this one, although you cant see the actual church, its there somewhere