Glimpses of London Churches 10, 11 & 12 The St Botolphs
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St. Michael the Archangel, Norfolk, UK
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Driving through the Norfolk countryside, suddenly in the middle of nowhere appears this huge cathedral like structure. Rev Whitwell Elwin, was the rector of a church on this site in the mid 1850s. He decided to build this church, ignoring the lack of congregation. He gave it the name of St. Michael the Archangel.
The church is constructed in flint with limestone dressings, and has tiled roofs. Its plan consists of a nave, a chancel, a north porch, a south vestry, and twin west towers. The whole is in an eccentric French Gothic style. The towers are slim and set diagonally. They are in three stages, the lower two stages containing elongated blank arcading. The top stage contains tall bell openings, and on the summit of the towers are pierced friezes with crocketed pinnacles on the corners. Between the towers is a doorway, over which is a four-light window. A three-tier pinnacle rises from the west gable. This also has blank arcading and has the appearance of a minaret. Along the sides of the church, the bays are separated by buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, and there are similar pinnacles on the gable ends. In the south wall of the chancel is a priest's door, and above this is an elaborately carved niche. Set inside the east wall of the north porch is a 14th-century headless statue of the Virgin and Child that was discovered during the building of the church.
The nave has a hammerbeam roof which is decorated with carved wooden angels by James Minns, a local master-carver. The roof of the chancel is a false hammer-beam. Above the chancel arch is a triangular opening. Around the nave wall is linenfold dado panelling. The pulpit and other fittings all date from the 19th century. The stained glass depicts angels, musicians, and female faces. The architect Edward Lutyens said of the church that it was very naughty but built in the right spirit.
The architect of the church and designer of the fittings and stained glass, Rev Elwin, was a descendant of Pocahontas and was from 1853 to 1860 the editor of the Quarterly Review. He had no architectural training, and based his designs on details of other churches, and from his own imagination.
According to the guidebook produced by the Churches Conservation Trust, the design of the west doorway was inspired by a doorway at Glastonbury Abbey, the triangular opening above the chancel arch by Lichfield Cathedral, the stained glass in the nave windows from St Mary's Church at Temple Balsall, Warwickshire, and that in the west window by St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster. The hammer beam roof is said to be based on that of Saint Botolph's Church in Trunch, Norfolk
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A video to mark 15 years of the Digital Atlas of England Project. The aim of the project is to photographically record in detail all of the rural parish churches in England (and a few other buildings too).
The project archive currently contains over 335,000 pictures covering just over 7000 churches (about 70% of the total). This video displays on the left hand side roughly every 20th, 40th and 60th image per frame at 25 frames per second. The right hand side displays a selection of 19 images from the archive. These are:
Letheringham church, Suffolk
Monument to the 2nd Baron Willoughby, Spilsby, Lincolnshire
Horse skulls, Elsdon, Northumberland
Monument to Richard and Jane Knightley, Fawsley, Northamptonshire
East window by Heywood Sumner, Longworth, Berkshire
Church & Mausoleum, Greymare Hill, Northumberland
Nave, Skidbrooke, Lincolnshire
Nave, Stanford-on-Avon, Northamptonshire
Tower, Titchmarsh, Northamptonshire
Nave roof, Gedney, Lincolnshire
Saxon tower, Hough-on-the-Hill, Lincolnshire
Dutton monument, Sherborne, Gloucestershire
Medieval font canopy, Trunch, Norfolk
Screen, St Paul's Walden, Hertfordshire
Bennett monument, Babraham, Cambridgeshire
Monument to Robert Cecil, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Truro Cathedral, Cornwall
Wax effigy of Sarah Hare, Stow Bardolph, Norfolk
Derelict church, Low Toynton, Lincolnshire
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St Mary Woolnoth Church, London
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A brief glimpse into how Trunch Village Society Community Composting Group operates their community composting scheme -- collecting garden waste from the households in the community who participate in the scheme, and then weighing it, shredding it, composting and turning it, sieving it and bagging it -- for sale as compost back to households in their local community.
Thatch Cottage Trunch ?285k
Hollywood is part of a very attractive gated complex of just four barn conversions built in 2006 to a very high specification. Situated in a lovely area just outside Denham the property has a paddock with outbuildings, stable and rear garden. Both Denham and Gerrards Cross stations are close by with Uxbridge just a short drive away.