Your Bike in front of a Church

[tyred]

Just before I started to fix my puncture. Thank you God...

 

[Grant Fondo]

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Malmesbury Abbey. Dynamic range too great for film, let alone digital.

Still a great pic

 

[briantrumpet]

Montlaur-en-Diois, almost 3 years ago...

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Almost took a photo of that yesterday. It's just a pity that most churches round here are locked apart from for services.

 

[biggs682]

All Hallows church in Hargrave

And At Mary's in Shelton

 

[biggs682]

Parish church of Stoke Goldington in yonder distance.

 

[Shack]

St Peters Church, Uplowman, Devon

 

[gtmet]

All Saints, Kingston Seymour.

In the marshlands near the sea...

 

[Grant Fondo]

St Seiriols Anglesey. Built around 1140.

 

[briantrumpet]

Cornillon-sur-l'Oule yesterday:

 

[briantrumpet]

A fantastically old church today, at Aurel (the one in the Drôme, not Vaucluse). A pity it wasn't open, especially as churches of this age (11th/12th century) are relatively rare.

 

[Blue Hills]

Bramley End Church.

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As in

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPFhQuqYpYg


And the cottage at the church gates which you can see in the clip at the beginning and the end.

Pic without bike.

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OK, it's not, it's Turville.

Used for quite a few film/TV locations. **

A shot of the village from the churchyard showing the windmill on the hill - as used in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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Went the Day Well is I think one of the greatest British films about the war* and there are few places that seem more English than Turville/Bramley End - it seems as if nothing much has changed since the wartime when the film was made - there's still not much there than the church, the churchyard, some houses and a pub.

A wargrave - a 19 year old pilot died not too long before the film was made, though the gravestone almost certainly wasn't there when the film was made.

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* So it was of course directed by a foreigner - Alberto Cavalcanti - if you go to the Brazilian embassy on/just off Trafalgar Square, there's a room dedicated to him.

** Including the Vicar Of Dibley - I've been there on a different bike a few years ago - most of the comments in the visitor's book name-checked the Vicar of Dibley - the only one which I remember referring to Went the Day Well was actually from a German chap who recalled the film - maybe seen on a wet German post-war TV Sunday afternoon - with fondness and respect.

Regards to him (still around I hope) and RIP to the 19 year old Brit pilot.

(a particularly moving reconciliatory tribute at the bottom of his gravestone - should have copied the text)

For anyone interested the church is starring in Went the Day well showing on Talking Pictures TV freeview channel 81 18:35 today.

 

[biggs682]

Milton Malsor's Holy cross church

 

[cwskas]

All Saints, Kingston Seymour.
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Thanks for including the plaque with the history.

 

[briantrumpet]

Allex today, and whoop, it was open! There's also a photobombing pigeon in front of the church.

 

[briantrumpet]

Another Romanesque church today, at Comps, near Dieulefit, and it was open! It's as high as it's long inside, all sympathetically restored. Well worth a visit, if you're in the area (check opening times... they are very French... i.e., utterly random).