Your Bike in front of a Church

[briantrumpet]

Saint Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip, the finest tower in Somerset.

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Once Fitzroger land, this corner of Somerset is now Waldegrave country.

Sir Henry Fitzroger obit 1388.
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Frances, Countess Waldegrave obit 1879.
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Hmm, I reckon North Petherton edges it, personally (not my photo)

 

[gtmet]

Hmm, I reckon North Petherton edges it, personally (not my photo)

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🤣 The notice inside Chewton Mendip did mention that some people considered St Mary, Taunton as a competitor, but said nothing of North Petherton.

 

[gtmet]

Saint Michael, Clapton-in-Gordano.

Unusually, yesterday it was open, for the jubilee. So:

C13 buttery screen from nearby Clapton Court & the Wynter monument.

 

[Sallar55]

Sky looks good, perhaps no thunder ⚡ storm tonight

 

[PeteXXX]

MBIFO St Andrews Church, Great Billing (again)

 

[FrothNinja]

Marlborough College chapel

 

[gtmet]

Saint Martin, North Nibley.

 

[briantrumpet]

Ashcombe today:

 

[PeteXXX]

MBIFO Bakewell Methodist Church on t'other day's ride.

 

[gtmet]

Saint John the Baptist, Axbridge.

Font 1450, angels hidden by plaster under the Commonwealth.



Medieval roof panels, with Green Man, still faintly coloured, brilliant plaster nave roof.




Monuments to Ann & William Prowse.

 

[Jenkins]

St. Nicholas in Little Saxham

And St. Giles in Risby

 

[Sallar55]

Caen

 

[briantrumpet]

Honiton today. Apparently the architect normally did railway stations.

 

[BoldonLad]

Saint Pauls Church, Jarrow, and ruins of Monastery. This is not far from where I live, and, I have passed it often. Never really thought to stop and look. It is, I believe, where St Bede spent most of his life. Silly person that I am, as I wandered around, I. was thinking, given that Bede is reasonably famous, why didn't they

call it St Bede's, rather than St Paul's? Then, I realised, he (Bede) wasn't famous when they built the Monastery here, he was just one of many monks!

 

[gtmet]

Holy Cross - Saint Mark, Mark.

Two of the four carved wooden evangelists with their symbols.
Mark-winged ox. Matthew - divine man.



One of the more recent of dozens of carved wooden figure corbels - Bishop Kennion.

C15 stone font. One of two red lions guarding the south door, in Jubilee garb.