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Weathercock on top of the 15c tower, the only part of the earlier church which escaped destruction by an incendiary bomb, when scores of these were dropped on the village on the night of August 31st 1940 destroying several houses and the rectory stables. One dropped inside the organ setting fire to the church which was completely burnt out = Church of St George, Clyst St George, Devon
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St Helen, St Helen's Square, York.
Aisle windows
The decorative glass arranged in the aisle windows under George Pace includes a number of round panels, probably Flemish, which date from the sixteenth century or possibly later. They have an unknown history but are described by JA Knowles in his 1936 History of York Glass Painting as being in the east windows of the aisles. If they are survivals from the 1550s rebuilding, they would be exceptionally rare survivals of Marian liturgical fittings.
St Nicholas, Castle Hedingham, Essex
Sible Hedingham and Castle Hedingham are two large villages which merge into each other across the infant River Colne in the rolling hills of north Essex. The Hedinghams are quite different in character. Sible Hedingham, much the larger, is a working village of housing estates and small factories on the old Cambridge to Colchester road, whilst Castle Hedingham, with its castle, tea shops and pargetted houses, is a pretty tourist trap village. Both parish churches are big, Castle Hedingham's much the grander, one of the finest Norman moments in the county.
My Harrall ancestors farmed in Sible Hedingham, but they were not baptised in Sible Hedingham church, nor did they worship there. Instead, they walked the short distance into Castle Hedingham and the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters at the chapel there, today a United Reformed church in the shadow of the great parish church. Many of them were buried in the little chapel graveyard, although none of their headstones survive, if there ever were any.
Before the end of the 18th Century my great-great-great-great-grandfather Daniel Harrall took his small amount of capital and bought a farm on the Hoo peninsula in Kent. At the time of the 1851 census, in his seventies, Daniel would gave his birthplace as Civiledingham, a reminder that Sible Hedingham is a corruption of Civil Hedingham, the place the people lived as opposed to its rather posh neighbour across the river. Daniel's granddaughter Mary Ann Harrall was my grandfather's grandmother. She knew Charles Dickens when she was a child.
St Mary's at Cubbington on the eastern fringe of Leamington Spa largely dates back to the 12th century, the tower and south nave arcade in particular being good examples of Norman work.
The interior is somewhat dark owing to a profusion of Victorian stained glass windows. There is an interesting 17th century cartouche memorial attached to the wall adjoining the chancel arch.