Your Bike in front of a Church

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tyred

Squire
Location
Ireland
Another interesting Church from the weekend.

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gtmet

Veteran
Location
Bristol
... in front of Saint Mary the Virgin, West Kington.

250331-0616  W Kington  St Mary from outside churchyard to W-sovereign.JPG


Fairly plain inside, the use of text decoration possibly reflects the association with former rector Hugh Latimer. The wooden pulpit is C15 perpendicular style. The wordy wall monument C16.
250331-0635  W Kington  St Mary view E - nave-chancel-arch text.JPG

250331-0628  W Kington  St Mary-C15 perpendicular style carved wood pulpit.JPG 250331-0632  W Kington  St Mary S transept reset C16 wall monument to AP.JPG
 

gtmet

Veteran
Location
Bristol
... in front of All Saints, Littleton Drew

250331-0614  Littleton Drew All Saints from SW-nave vestry-tower.JPG

Again, fairly plain inside, with a C13 font and some curios
250331-0601  Littleton Drew All Saints nave-chancel font from W.JPG

One of a two C9 Anglo-Saxon cross shaft fragments in the porch. A C15 effigy of a lady in a wimple.

250331-0612  Littleton Drew All Saints porch C9 cross shaft fragment.JPG

250331-0603  Littleton Drew All Saints-C15 woman wimple effigy in nave niche.JPG
 

FrothNinja

Veteran
Holy Trinity, Meole Brace. The amazing array of Pre- Raphaelite glass is the highlight for me. The apple festival a few autumns back was fun too.
This is what the Historic England listing states;
"1867-8. E Haycock Junior. Rusticated red sandstone with paler stone dressings and some ashlar bands, plain tiled roof with ridge cresting. PLAN: west tower clasped by nave and lean-to aisles, chancel. EXTERIOR: west tower of 4 stages with angle buttresses. Paired shouldered square-headed lights in second stage, with clock above, and paired lights to bell-chamber in hollow chamfered banded arch. Quatrefoil frieze and corbel table. Embattled parapet and short spire with weather vane. South aisle of 4 bays divided by buttresses, with coped gabled porch with short angle buttresses and foiled archway. Trefoil frieze above. 3-light Decorated windows. Gabled chapel projects, with 2 foiled lancet windows and a rose window over. Chancel with apsidal east end with 3-light Decorated windows in each face. It is distinguished by moulded eaves cornice, and separated from nave by a coped gable, although roof line continues at same level throughout. Lean-to north aisle of 4 bays with Decorated windows. Gabled vestry projects from aisle. INTERIOR: nave arcade of 5 bays, cylindrical shafts with alternately foliate and ring moulded capitals, and red and white banded voussoirs. Cross braced roof trusses carried on corbels. Chancel arch with paired banded shafts with rich foliate capitals. In the chancel, arches lead off each side to side chapels. Ornate roof truss with cross-bracing and curved struts each side of King post. Marble low relief reredos, and quatrefoil wood frieze at wall plate. Oak pews and pulpit possibly original. Octagonal font with alternate panels of marble inlay and raised foliate decoration. War memorial under the west window with high relief figures of a soldier and an angel kneeling each side of a name plate beneath a canopy. STAINED GLASS: noted for its complete series of stained-glass windows by Morris and Company. In the chancel, the windows are dated 1870, and are in a medieval narrative style, depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments each side of the Crucifixion with angels, saints and prophets. South side chapel windows dated 1894 by Kempe, with full-height figures depicting the Annunciation. South aisle windows dated 1899, Morris and Co., with full-height figures of prophets, saints and virtues on a pale ground. North aisle windows continue this series and are dated 1903 and 1916. One north window is earlier, dated 1887. It depicts Martha and Mary and is in a different style, with the two figures against a dark ground of drapes and vine leaves. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth: 1858-)."
DSC_4582 Holy Trinity, Meole Brace.JPG
 
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