Your Bike in front of a Church

[Jenkins]

Today's church from yesterday's ride is All Saints church in Hargham. It caught my eye due to the tower being separate from the main body of the church (mostly hidden by a tree). Details of its history couresy of Norfolk Churches Trust

 

[Jenkins]

The last church from Tuesday's ride is St. Andrews in Quidenham and is a bit unusual in that it has a round tower. According to Wikipedia there are only 185 of these in the UK - 124 of which are in Norfolk and 38 in Suffolk (most of which are in the north of the county near Norfolk anyhow!).

 

[flake99please]

Duddingston Kirk

 

[Grant Fondo]

Congratulations, that's easily the ugliest church on the thread.

No way I really like it. Too many identikit gothic churches !

 

[briantrumpet]

St Julien-en-Quint

 

[Vertego]

Ha, St Roman is only 10kms from me, and Châtillon is delightful. When are you there?

The plan is for me to arrive on Monday 17/09, with 2 others to fly down a few days later - one for a long weekend and the other to stay until we drive home on Saturday 29/09.

Is the area badly affected, if at all, by the floods that have hit the region?

 

[briantrumpet]

The plan is for me to arrive on Monday 17/09, with 2 others to fly down a few days later - one for a long weekend and the other to stay until we drive home on Saturday 29/09.

Is the area badly affected, if at all, by the floods that have hit the region?

Ah, I'll have gone by then. Would love to be around for the grape harvest. But work calls.

You ought to do the Dromoise weekend 21/22 - really good selection of routes, if you're into sportives. Can find you details if so... all routes start at Die, just 8km from St R.

No, this part hardly affected... damage was further south east in the département.

 

[biggs682]

A random Triumph bike outside the Methodist church on Orwell Rd in Felixstowe .

 

[Jenkins]

A random Triumph bike outside the Methodist church on Orwell Rd in Felixstowe .

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Oi - get out of my town

(If you'd turned 180° and gone down the other way along Orwell Road, there's the United Reform Church & St. Johns within about 100 yards of each other)

 

[biggs682]

Oi - get out of my town

(If you'd turned 180° and gone down the other way along Orwell Road, there's the United Reform Church & St. Johns within about 100 yards of each other)

We walked past them but no Bikes in view , nice town and a lovely promenade to stroll along .

 

[Aravis]

Today's church from yesterday's ride is All Saints church in Hargham. It caught my eye due to the tower being separate from the main body of the church (mostly hidden by a tree). Details of its history couresy of Norfolk Churches Trust View attachment 423506

I do find that detached bell-towers have a peculiar fascination, perhaps because it hints at a long and colourful history. Herefordshire is a bit of hot-spot; this one is at Garway, quite a remote location:

In contrast to the Hargham example, this one seems to have begun as fully detached, with a linking passage being added more recently. To see this clearly I had to move to a position which wasn't so favourably lit:

There's a wonderfully informative article here, clearly written by a true enthusiast.

 

[briantrumpet]

Another day, another temple. This is St Ruf's, in Valence:

 

[biggs682]

Another random cyclist riding past Felixstowe United Recormed church

 

[Jenkins]

Sorry @biggs682 - I thought you'd brought a random bike WITH you for a ride around while you were here, not one that was parked outside..

Here's another view of the United Reform Church on this morning's commute

And St. John's Church just up the road as well

 

[biggs682]

@Jenkins yeah no bike and we stayed on Orwell Rd in the Best Western hotal roughly half way between those 2 churches