Your Bike in front of a Church

[geocycle]

Great pics. Do round towers mean Saxon origins or is it just a regional thing taking advantage of the flints?

 

[sevenfourate]

The final visit was to St. Swithin's in Ashmanhaugh
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Links for info embedded in the name of each church.

Great ride, pics, info and thought with the embedded links 👍

 

[Jenkins]

Great pics. Do round towers mean Saxon origins or is it just a regional thing taking advantage of the flints?

No idea I'm afraid, they're just something I picked up on a few years ago as being different from the square towers on virtually all other churches. It seems to be a mostly East Anglian thing - especially Norfolk with the majority. All I can do is point you in the direction of https://www.roundtowers.org.uk/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-tower_church

 

[Juan Kog]

idea I'm afraid, they're just something I picked up on a few years ago as being different from the square towers on virtually all other churches. It seems to be a mostly East Anglian thing - especially Norfolk with the majority. All I can do is point you in the direction of https://www.roundtowers.org.uk/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-tower_church

So normal for Norfolk

 

[FrothNinja]

Baptist Chapel, Blockley

 

[gtmet]

... in front of Saint Cyr, Stinchcombe.

 

[PeteXXX]

My Brommie in front of Moulton Parish Church ⛪

 

[geocycle]

A very unremarkable methodists chapel in Levens, Cumbria. It caught my attention as the Minister is the Rev Dainty-Share, possibly the most frugal and understated Methodist name I could imagine!

 

[rualexander]

Stichill, near Kelso.

 

[sevenfourate]

St Bartholomew, Corton, Lowestoft:

St Benedict’s, Gunton, Lowestoft:

Lowestoft Cemetery Chapel:

 

[PeteXXX]

No bike, and it's not a church, but I think I'll get away with it 👍
Goyt's Lane shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary above Fernilee Reservoir.

 

[bluenotebob]

MBIFO la chapelle de St Marcel, properly known as Chapelle Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Saint-Marcel, in the parish of Saint-Caradec

Originally constructed in the 17th century and the southern door was added in 1714

 

[gtmet]

in front of the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity, Gloucester.

As is King Osric of Mercia.

Intricate detail & indigestion.

 

[PeteXXX]

MBIFO St Mary's Church, Orlingbury.

 

[geocycle]

St Andrews, Dent. 11th century origins, rebuilt in 1417, various alterations until Paley and Austin got their hands on it in the 19th century. I couldn’t quite get my bike in the same frame as the tower.