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The large village of Feltwell in the south west of Norfolk has two medieval churches – St Mary and St Nicholas. This is not uncommon and probably reflects the wealth there was in the county at a time when Norwich was the third city of the kingdom. Both were in regular use until the seventies, although St Nicholas is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
What is unusual – at least in my experience – is that rather than having a parish of their own, both churches serve a single parish. Thus when it came to researching the names on the war memorial it was impossible to tell which of the two churches individual were baptised or married in. Similarly when it came to checking out the census details. If this was a village with two parishes then I would expect villagers to proudly tell the census taker they were born Feltwell St Mary or Feltwell St Nicholas – indeed some of the zealous or more partisan might drop the Feltwell altogether. But here everyone I investigated was born and\or lived Feltwell.
St. Nicholas also has the larger and more contemporary graveyard – you will struggle to find anyone from the 20th Century was the feeling I got when I looked around the churchyard at St Mary. It is the location for a large collection of WW2 graves relating to RAF Feltwell that I will eventually get round to transcribing and researching and posting on Flickr, but for now my focus is on the Great War and the coming centennial celebration of the armistice. If you’re after a picture of one of those then flickrmail me.
When Simon Knott, author the Norfolk Churches website, came this way in 2009 he found the church of St Nicholas charming and refreshing. I tend to have a look at his site after I have visited (and formed my own opinion), so I can better understand the architectural history of the building. Sadly for me the building was mouldy and cloying – I so barely recognised the building interior that he had photographed that I thought I’d clicked on the wrong page. The interior wall of the collapsed tower in particular seemed to be suffering. I felt no temptation to linger and hurried back outside to find out what the headstones of the dead could tell me about those that had lived.
For more on St Nicholas see
The TriWest Healthcare Alliance’s Sservice-Area Director David Saeva present Assistant Adjutant General, Brig. Gen. Jeff Burton a $15,000 donation for the Utah National Guard Charitable Trust in a ceremony Jan. 6 at the Utah Guard’s Draper headquarters.
Scott designed/built a low ropes course at church this weekend for the Mens' Ministry. This is one station of the Trust Fall. Everyone lines up with their arms out to catch the person who is leaning back and falling. The person calls out "falling" and the others respond with "fall on". Apr.28
Charles Paget Wade (1883–1956) was an architect, artist-craftsman and poet; today he is perhaps best remembered for the eclectic collection he amassed during his life, a collection which can be seen at Snowshill Manor, his former home in the village of Snowshill, Gloucestershire, which he gave to the National Trust in 1951.
(Taken from Wikipedia)
My sister was learning to ride her bike and I was experimenting with my tripod and slow shutter speeds. At the beach I couldn't get anything but a white image. But it worked well the day I was shooting these pictures I thought.
A May Day Bank Holiday Monday visit to Canons Ashby, a National Trust run property in Northamptonshire.
I first saw the Priory Church of St Mary when we first arrived from the car park, and it was the last place we visited at Canons Ashby before we left.
Canons Ashby Priory was an Augustinian priory at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England.
The Priory was founded by Stephen la Leye on a site to the south of the present church between 1147 and 1151 in the reign of Henry II.
In 1253 the Augustinians were granted a licence to dig the Norwell, which still exists north of the present church, to supply water to the priory.
In 1537 after the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Crown granted the priory and its estates to Sir Francis Bryan, a close ally of Henry VIII. Bryan held the estate for only about a year before selling it in 1538 to Sir John Cope, a wealthy Banbury lawyer. Sir John's daughter Elizabeth inherited what is thought to have been the priory farmhouse [wrong – Wilkyns farm was part of John Dryden's inheritance. Copes Ashbie – across the road – was inherited by Elizabeth's brother, who died early leaving his sons as Wards of the Dryden family]. In 1551 she married John Dryden, who extended the building to form the earliest parts of Canons Ashby House.
Part of the building survives: the Church of England parish church of St Mary dates from about 1250 and this, together with Canons Ashby House, is now owned by the National Trust. Its power and size can be judged by its outlying buildings which cover a large area of the surrounding countryside. The remains of the priory's hospitalium survive as the monastic building centred on the parish church of Maidford, about 5 miles (8 km) away.
Grade I Listed Building
A look around inside of the historic church!
hollow tower - no upper floors but was the rope to ring the bell!
Compton Castle is a fortified manor house in the village of Compton (formerly "Compton Pole"), about 5 miles west of Torquay. The estate was home to the families of Compton, de la Pole, Doddiscombe, Gilbert and Templer. The castle has been home to the Gilbert family for most of the time since it was built. Listed as a Grade 1 set of buildings, it has been a National Trust property since 1951.