Your Bike in front of a Church

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Two from my rides this year

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St Micheal And All Angels church Croft

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Church of St mary's OldBerrow
 
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NorthernDave

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St Peter's at Thorner this morning
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Ian H

Ancient randonneur
Stoke. The village between Hartland and Hartland Quay on the North Devon/North Cornwall border.

One of the biggest churches to smallest village ratios I've ever stumbled across, which serves to show the power and influence the church used to have.

Devon has a lot of dispersed communities rather than nucleated villages, so the church would have served quite a large area.
 

Custom24

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Oxfordshire
I would but I worry about catching on fire if I loiter long enough for a photograph.
 

briantrumpet

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Location
Devon & Die
From this morning, Newbourne Church
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Blimey, that's some buttressing there. Just as well, given the angle ;)

Actually, made me think of Temple Church in Bristol, where my great grandfather was choimaster for ages. After it was bombed in the war, the demolition team was about to blow up the tower as they thought it was dangerous, until it was pointed out that it had been leaning for a few centuries before the war (Wikipedia photo again)...

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briantrumpet

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Devon & Die
Blimey, that's some buttressing there. Just as well, given the angle ;)

Actually, made me think of Temple Church in Bristol, where my great grandfather was choimaster for ages. After it was bombed in the war, the demolition team was about to blow up the tower as they thought it was dangerous, until it was pointed out that it had been leaning for a few centuries before the war (Wikipedia photo again)...

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Haha, I know that this is OT, but I was looking at the photo of Temple Church, and assumed the slight 'curve' as down to the photo. But no... seem that they started building the tower in 1390, but after two stages it started to lean, so they stopped. In 1460 they decided to finish it off, but tried to build it vertically from the wonky bottom. Hence the curve. Pisa? Pah, I think this is better.
 
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