Your Bike in front of a Church

[andyoxon]

St Andrew, a Saxon/Norman church (from 1150) in Coln Rogers, nr Bibury. A great thing about stopping on a ride is sometimes speaking to locals. Gent in his 80s, interested in my bike, used to bike race in 50s/60s and knew Tommy Simpson - gave him a lift in his car.
Apparently a stained glass window detail featured in the 2020 Royal mail christmas stamps, and plaque in the church shows CR as one of the Thankful Villages - where all those who served in WW1 returned.

 

[andyoxon]

St John Baptist, impressive Wool church, Cirencester...

and best sausage roll 'Gloucester Old Spot' I've had, from around the corner at Knead's bakery.

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[gtmet]

... above Saint Kenelm, Sapperton.

 

[Grant Fondo]

St Andrew, a Saxon/Norman church (from 1150) in Coln Rogers, nr Bibury. A great thing about stopping on a ride is sometimes speaking to locals. Gent in his 80s, interested in my bike, used to bike race in 50s/60s and knew Tommy Simpson - gave him a lift in his car.
Apparently a stained glass window detail featured in the 2020 Royal mail christmas stamps, and plaque in the church shows CR as one of the Thankful Villages - where all those who served in WW1 returned.

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Which bits are saxon or norman? Porch? Rest is transitional or early english?

 

[Alex321]

Which bits are saxon or norman? Porch? Rest is transitional or early english?

Not according to Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Andrew,_Coln_Rogers

Or historic England
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1340898?section=official-list-entry

The tower is later, apparently, but quite a lot of the rest is 11th Century, which is Late Saxon/Norman. Though it does look like bits have been added/modified at various times during its history.

 

[andyoxon]

Also...

It is rare to find a Saxon church with an unaltered layout, but that is what we have at Coln Rogers. The church of St Andrew dates to the mid 11th century and exhibits every element of traditional Saxon architecture; the ground plan is original, with long-and-short work construction binding the walls, narrow pilaster strips for decoration, with a narrow a Saxon window and chancel arch. The east end of the chancel was rebuilt in the late Middle Ages and the west tower added.

• Saxon pilaster strip
• Saxon long-and-short quoins
• Norman font
• Medieval stained glass

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Coln-Rogers.htm

You can see the exterior vertical pilaster strip to the right of the window in pic below...

Tower & porch much later additions...

Yew tree to the left supposed to be as old as the church.

The church info sheet, says 'small round-headed Saxon window...hole being fashioned from a single block of stone'... which I think is this...

 

[Grant Fondo]

Also...

• Saxon pilaster strip
• Saxon long-and-short quoins
• Norman font
• Medieval stained glass

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/glouces/churches/Coln-Rogers.htm

You can see the exterior vertical pilaster strip to the right of the window in pic below...

Tower & porch much later additions...

Yew tree to the left supposed to be as old as the church.

The church info sheet, says 'small round-headed Saxon window...hole being fashioned from a single block of stone'... which I think is this...

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Certainly heavily modified, this internal arch the oldest bit?

I'm fascinated by early christian/saxon churches, so rare to find a complete one.
Not too far from St Andrew, St Lawrence, Bradford on Avon which I visited earlier this year. Fabulous! Early 11th century, but many think it could be a couple of hundred years older.

 

[andyoxon]

Certainly heavily modified, this internal arch the oldest bit?

The church info describes the chancel arch as 'somewhat the same as Daglingworth' [saxon arch] & 'has the appearance of being part and parcel of the original Saxon church'. 'Chancel robbed of every ancient feature... except a founders tomb'.

 

[briantrumpet]

St Baudille-et-Pipet yesterday.

 

[geocycle]

Another 19th century church, St Matthew’s Keasden near Clapham. Well it’s not really near anywhere, but is in the middle of nowhere, serving a dispersed population presumably living around nowhere. I’m not being disparaging , it’s a fantastic part of Yorkshire. Lovely cycling country and nice views cross to Ingleborough.

 

[FrothNinja]

St Peter's Church, Melverley, 1406 or late C15 (depending on who you believe). One of two wooden ecclesiastical buildings in Shropshire, though some claim there are five of them.

 

[gtmet]

..... beside Saint John the Evangelist, Elkstone.

The west tower and nave are generally C13 & C15 rebuilds, the chancel is Norman C12. Norman decoration always seem to me a vivid insight into a darker, half-pagan northern world .
Chancel:



S porch tympanum:

 

[FrothNinja]

Bethel Chapel on the right, built 1838, Morton

 

[sevenfourate]

St Nicholas, Pakefield, Suffolk

 

[Jenkins]

I've probably posted this before, but as I was passing today - St. Peter's in Spexhall.