Friday 18 December 2009

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas ....


4 comments:

  1. These are lovely pictures. Is that the church in the second one? And how would you describe that tower? Is it Norman? I am so ignorant of anything older that Frank Lloyd Wright. :-(

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  2. The church is opposite where I live in Ilketshall St Margaret. Norfolk and Suffolk have numerous churches with Saxon round towers, though they are rare anywhere else in England. That view is from the meadow on the SW side. All bar one of my 11 churches have Saxon origins with two, (this and the redundant one at All Saints South Elmham) round towers. The one Victorian church (at Flixton) is an extensive rebuild of one with Saxon foundations. You're talking near-on 1,000 years ago ....

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  3. Ah, well I knew it was old, just not how old. It is a lovely photo. I can imagine how wonderful it would be to see it every day, although it seems to me that some people surrounded by old buildings, churches, and cathedrals seem to become immune to their beauty.

    You have 11 churches? Your blog name could also then apply to your circuit, eh?

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  4. That's why the blog name was chosen - the area is known as "The Saints" with all but three of my villages are named after saints. The Diocese wouldn't allow the Benefice to be called that though = too holy. Instead we have the snappy short title that fits easily onto cheques and address labels ... The Benefice of South Elmham & Ilketshall. Another opportunity to connect with real life missed by the organisation!

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