The imposing and historic All Saints' Church, East Meon, Hampshire
All Saints' Church, lychgate and village bus-stop (where I alighted from the New Alresford-Petersfield bus.)
I'm rather embarrassed to admit I've never paid much attention to All Saints when I've seen it in other photographs, admiring its commanding position, but thinking it to be a rather lumpen, heavy-handed Victorian affair. Turns out to be the real deal, built somewhere between 1080 and the 1130's although various medieval alterations and chapels were added. The tower with its finely carved bell openings and roundels dates to around 1150 and its broach spire 1230.
Architectural historians seem to swoon at it, but I wasn't so keen, finding its interior a little too spartan for my tastes. Perhaps the church's most important and famous feature is its rare 'Tournai' font.
The imposing and historic All Saints' Church, East Meon, Hampshire
All Saints' Church, lychgate and village bus-stop (where I alighted from the New Alresford-Petersfield bus.)
I'm rather embarrassed to admit I've never paid much attention to All Saints when I've seen it in other photographs, admiring its commanding position, but thinking it to be a rather lumpen, heavy-handed Victorian affair. Turns out to be the real deal, built somewhere between 1080 and the 1130's although various medieval alterations and chapels were added. The tower with its finely carved bell openings and roundels dates to around 1150 and its broach spire 1230.
Architectural historians seem to swoon at it, but I wasn't so keen, finding its interior a little too spartan for my tastes. Perhaps the church's most important and famous feature is its rare 'Tournai' font.