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Dipping into my archives for this March 2005 view of the entrance to Sutton Coldfield's town library - I initially found the facility difficult to locate because it is tucked away inside a shopping precinct off Lower Parade. As of April 2013, the building has been closed to the public for some months because of the need for urgent repair works.
14c Chancel rebuilt in 1905 , with the tomb of William Roberts 1634 on the left
- Church of St James, Sutton Cheney Leicestershire
Picture with thanks - copyright Christine Matthews CCL www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3131503
Photos from the Made In Sutton Stage part of Sutton Expo held in Sutton Coldfield, England 28th September 2014
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Steve Sutton speaking at the 2015 Young Americans for Liberty National Convention at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Founding corporate partner Bank of America Merrill Lynch employees tell students about their US university experiences
St Anne's is the southernmost of the two churches at Sutton Bonington (a rare distinction owing to the village's origins as two separate villages that later merged over the centuries, hence the two parish churches). It is the smaller and more humble building architecturally but is no less interesting than its near neighbour.
The present building is of mainly 13th - 14th century date and consists of a chancel and nave with an aisle on the north side. There is no tower, just a bellcote at the west end and thus it is a low lying structure with little protruding above roof level, though its position on high ground lends it some dignity on approach.
Inside it retains a sense of the ancient and rustic though most of the furnishings date from the late Victorian restoration. The font is medieval as is the damaged alabaster effigy of a knight in a recess in the chancel. There is a mixture of 19th and early 20th century glass, the best piece being the west window with its three beautiful figures designed by Henry Holiday.
I have visited this church twice and found it open on both occasions, so I assume it is normally more visitor friendly.
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One of the most famous Green Men in Britain, found below the respond at west end of the south aisle. Hawthorn leaves and berries, the latter being eaten by three birds. Late C13 or early C14 : detail
Suttons Bay is a picturesque little village in Michigan's Leelanau County. The village was incorporated in 1898 and in 2000 had a population of 589.
Pen sketch, this is a ten minute blind drawing where I just looked at the church without looking down much at the paper, I hope that it caught something of the place.
Church of St Michael, Sutton, Herefordshire, was a former parish church,of a now deserted medieval village, until the parishes of Sutton St Michael and Sutton St Nicholas were united in 1876
The Domeday survey records it as one of the holdings of Nigel the Physician, doctor to the king. previously it was listed as under Spirites the Priest;
It consists of a 12c two-bay nave, two-bay chancel, 17c timber bell turret with 2 bells dated 1669 & 20c west porch.
Some of the small original lancet windows have been enlarged in 13c & 14c.
The c1140 tub-shaped font with 4 lions at the base has survived , www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/YFS849 possibly by the same mason who carved the lion font in Hereford Cathedral.
At the west end of the south wall of the nave, is a monument with the reclining cadaver of Elizabeth Simon 1643 wife of George Cotton - sadly I have no picture of this. .
All restored c1865 and 1909, it is now supported by the Herefordshire Historic Churches Trust. It can still be used for weddings seating 40 people
Photos from the Made In Sutton Stage part of Sutton Expo held in Sutton Coldfield, England 28th September 2014
Group Sutton Arts Theatre
A Large circular shield, with a central boss, mounted with granets and with die-pressed plaques of interlaced animal ornament. The shield front displayed two large emblems with garnet settings, one a composite metal predatory bird and the other a flying dragon.
Detail: Dragon Shield Mount.
Photos from the Made In Sutton Stage part of Sutton Expo held in Sutton Coldfield, England 28th September 2014
Group Squirm
When this was a functioning house visitors would not have approached from this side. The main driveway came from the north with only the briefest glimpses of the west side of the house. This side would have been seen mostly by servants and estate workers. The pavilion on the right contained on the ground floor the Kitchen, Scullery and Laundry. I am not sure of the layout of the first floor. This is because I can only find a plan of the Ground Floor showing the layout around 1810.
The house was designed by the architect Francis Smith from 1724. The ruin encases an earlier house that stood on the site.
Edward Poynton of Nottingham carved the exterior stonework. The house contained some very fine stucco plasterwork made by two Italian master craftsmen Arturi and Vasalli. It is thought that Grinling Gibbons contributed some of the interior wood carvings.
In 1919 the estate was broken up and the house sold. The buyers sold the internal features as architectural salvage. The house was quickly reduced to being a shell. Some rooms still exist in the United States. Three interiors are displayed at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. It is also possible to see a pine-panelled room from this house at the Huntington Library, California.
The details of the rooms that are locally said to have gone to Philadelphia can be seen here www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/42068.html?mulR...|1 . Although I note that the Museum is less certain than the information boards on site and local knowledge.
The house was saved by the writer Sir Osbert Sitwell in the 1940's. When Sir Osbert died in 1969 the ruins were given to the Ministry of Works and are now in the care of English Heritage. When I first visited here in the 1980's you could not get close to the ruins. The interior of the ruin was littered with fallen masonry, beams and lumps of plaster and general debris. The debris was cleared out and the ruin made safe so that it has been possible to walk through the interior since the late 1990's.