Cycling Weekly; Thursday 1st September

[Richard A Thackeray]

Odd, & very odd
I was reading the new edition of Cycling Weekly over tea (Lentil Dahl), & the 'Club-Ride' feature interested me, even though it was in Cheshire

The text referred to a Church, & like (names removed - tags active), I'd possibly burst into flames if I set foot in one, it intrigued me
So, I googled it

A half-timbered Church?!?!
Now that is unusual, I've never seen one

Have any of you, dear readers, & if so, where?


Googled images of St Oswalds, in Peover









I know there's a full timber construction Church in Shipley (West Yorkshire)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Sorry, for 'name-tags'
Lifted straight from earlier posting to FaceBook

 

[screenman]

Can somebody please post a picture of the church in Southrey, which is the next village from where I live. For some reason my machine is not playing the game.

Thanks.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

This??

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2371873
Very nice indeed!!

 

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St Peter's at Pirton

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

St Peter's at Pirton

Another cracking building

 

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Thatched one at Brockhampton

Another cracking building

I ride past there quite often

 

[screenman]

This??

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2371873
Very nice indeed!!

Thanks.

 

[Old jon]

Odd, & very odd
I was reading the new edition of Cycling Weekly over tea (Lentil Dahl), & the 'Club-Ride' feature interested me, even though it was in Cheshire

The text referred to a Church, & like (names removed - tags active), I'd possibly burst into flames if I set foot in one, it intrigued me
So, I googled it

A half-timbered Church?!?!
Now that is unusual, I've never seen one

Have any of you, dear readers, & if so, where?

Best I can manage, at the bottom of Selby Road in Leeds, the tower looks to be timber, and it looked like that when I was at school ( long, long ago ) at Temple Moor School a mile or so up the road.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Greenstead Church, near Onger in Essex. The oldest wooden church in the world and probably the oldest wooden building in Europe.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

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Greenstead Church, near Onger in Essex. The oldest wooden church in the world and probably the oldest wooden building in Europe.

I'd have thought the oldest would be in Norway, maybe?

 

[Vapin' Joe]

I'd have thought the oldest would be in Norway, maybe?

But not still standing.

 

[Dayvo]

I'd have thought the oldest would be in Norway, maybe?

But not still standing.

The oldest standing stav church in Norway is at Urnes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urnes_Stave_Church

Have a look at this beauty, the largest stav church in Norway.

Greensted church dates back to about 1060.

 

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St James at Defford

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Melverley Church in Shropshire. (It is in Shropshire by a matter of metres, right on the border with Wales)