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Architects: Curl la Tourelle, 2010. Built under some controversy, the new centre's exterior doesn't do much to appease its critics. Note also the bicycle shed, looking as if it's been sourced from a local DIY store. And in the brief time I was there, I saw a child almost have an accident on the treacherous steps. On the positive side, it is reported to have cost only GBP8M and to have a BREEAM "excellent" rating. London Borough of Sutton.
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Sutton Coldfield's ancient parish church of Holy Trinity had long been on my 'to do' list, having failed to gain entry on my last visit a couple of years ago. I'd been able to enjoy it's red sandstone exterior, with it's mixture of 15th century and Victorian elements, but it's internal appearance and contents largely remained a mystery to me, until now.
I was very impressed by the interior with it's rich jumble of furnishings and painted ceilings, a real gem with plenty of interest. The church itself is quite restored (the outer north aisle is a Victorian extension), and the arcades are all curiously rounded from mid 16th century and later rebuildings and reveal galleries in the aisles. It all looked quite gloomy with so much red stone and dark woodwork, but C.E.Bateman's early 20th century ceiling decoration (nave, chancel and north chapel) is gorgeous and does much to cheer up an otherwise sombre interior. There is some fine post-Reformation woodwork in the chancel screens and stalls, much having been ejected from Worcester Cathedral during Scott's restoration.
There is some good glass, the east window is very fruity 1850s by Gibbs, but my favourite glass was the fine 1907 Supper at Emmaus by Mary Lowndes, along with the Yoxall & Whitford windows nearby in the south chapel. There are some interesting monuments, several fine tablets, a big Baroque piece with busts and the tomb and effigy of Bishop Vesey, supposedly the original 1550s figure but looking so thoroughly renewed I was convinced it was a modern pastiche (Pevsner attributes too much tlc!). There is also a fine Norman font, originally in nearby Nether Whitacre church prior to it's rebuilding.
I had heard good things about this church after my first attempted visit, so after concluding my business in neighbouring Streetly I came straight here. It is unfortunately still generally kept locked, so I tried asking at the parish centre opposite, and after an initially slightly lukewarm reception (perhaps more warning would have helped) a lady kindly offered to open up for me. I mentioned I was eager to see the church and it's furnishings as they are, having heard about plans for a major reordering, though owing to the huge costs involved this was dismissed as being some way off, perhaps 5 or so years, so no concrete plans just yet.
66075 with 6M60, Exeter Riverside to Bescot china clay tanks in the loop at Suttton Bridge Junction, Shrewsbury, Saturday 9.11.13
Sutton Scarsdale Hall sits about a mile West of the M1 motorway, just North of J29, from where it looks northeast, across the valley, towards Bolsover Castle. The Hall’s history and how it came to be an empty shell are far too complex to summarise. Rather, just Google it. It makes for some fascinating reading!
King Alfred Sutton Scotney Running Day 10 September 2023. This 1959 Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1 has Weymann bodywork and is seen arriving at Sutton Scotney on route 10 from Winchester via Stoke Charity.
Sutton Lines Route branded Volvo B7 / Alexander ALX400 4283, BU51RXK in Sutton Coldfield.
The branding has since been removed from this batch.
Sutton Scarsdale Hall sits about a mile West of the M1 motorway, just North of J29, from where it looks northeast, across the valley, towards Bolsover Castle. The Hall’s history and how it came to be an empty shell are far too complex to summarise. Rather, just Google it. It makes for some fascinating reading!
RPSI steam loco No.461 steams into Sutton Station light engine (and tender first) on a glorious April evening. The loco had worked the Spare Link rail tour from Wexford all the way through Dublin and on to Howth before being relieved by Irish Rail 201 class loco No.217. As soon as 217 left Howth with the final leg of the rail tour back to Connolly Station in Dublin, No.461 followed it back to be stabled in Connolly shed.
You can see a little cluster of my fellow railway photographers clustered on the platform just next to the loco in the distance.
As well as shooting stills I also shot video which you can see on my YouTube channel.
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All Saints
Church of England
Trompe l’oeil.
The subject is Thomas Bradstock, founder of Appleford School.
Located at the west end of the church, above the doors to the bell tower.,
On an alabaster wall monument on the south wall of the chancel, erected in his lifetime, kneels Geoffrey May who died in 1635
The coat of arms (repainted in 1994) are Gules a fess between 8 billets or. Crest, out of a ducal crown or a lion's head gules. flic.kr/p/2kSLTQv
"Galfridus May, gen. dominus huius manerii de Sutton Cheyney, alias Chenell; natus parochia de Fronte in com. Sussex, 21 die Maii, anno Domini 1548: et vitae suae diem clausit extremam 31 die octob anno Dom. 1635".
(Jeffery / Jeffrey / Geoffrey May, lord of the manor of Sutton Cheney alias Sutton Chenell, Born in the parish of Fronte, Sussex 21st May 1548: his life's last day was 31st October 1635.)
Geoffrey who is said to have "come out of Sussex " to Leicestershire, was the son of Richard May & Margaret Dalley of Tunbridge. His father was the second son of Thomas May of Faunt.
Thomas May of Faunt in turn descended from John May, younger son of Richard May citizen of London,
A Richard May was one of 4 free holders here in 1630
Geoffrey had a younger brother John who died without issue in Ireland.
In 1994 his descendant George May gave a Communion Chalice to the church www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/3V7ZPK
- Church of St James, Sutton Cheney Leicestershire
The organ at the west end of the nave, replaced instrumentalists at the beginning of the 20c. - Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire
The final section of the SH&RGR to be used was the section from St Helens Central to Hays Chemicals at Sutton Oak. With the closure of the Hays plant no traffic remained and the line effectively closed. The trackbed of the original line can be seen rising towards Sutton Oak Jct. 28.08.05.
Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. Terrace of four houses on Market Street dating from 1820 and Grade 2 listed.
Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, England
May 2017
Looking east down the early 13c nave to the 14c chancel which was rebuilt in 1905.
- Church of St James, Sutton Cheney Leicestershire