Your Bike in front of a Church

[biggs682]

Cracking church

In a very picturesque location that is easily missed

 

[Jenkins]

Firstly, a bit of an oddity - it looks like a church, but it isn't

(The Tattingstone Wonder - this is what it looks like from the other side - from the Wikipedia link)

And now a proper church - St. Marys in Capel St Mary

 

[biggs682]

Castle ashby church

 

[Tizme]

St Andrews Stoke Courcey (now Stogursey):

 

[briantrumpet]

Whimple, in East Devon. Looks like the tower is the only bit the Victorians didn't butcher.

 

[briantrumpet]

MBIFO yet another Victorianised church: Shillingford St George:

 

[Andy in Germany]

MBIFO yet another Victorianised church: Shillingford St George:

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What are the signs it been Victorianised?

 

[Vantage]

I've done this one before, but not from the front.
St Werburghs old Church in Warburton. At least 700 years old

And St Werburghs new church... built sometime in the 1800's according to the nice chap in the above pic

 

[briantrumpet]

What are the signs it been Victorianised?

The state of the stonework, the standard windows, the contrast with the architecture of the tower (at least the Victorians rarely demolished those), all sorts of things, once you start looking. It really makes you weep. Actually, this one has been reasonably well done, but the one above (Whimple) is an abomination - the main body of the church doesn't even try to match the tower.

To give slight credit to the Victorians, they inherited a very run-down ecclesiastic estate, and with the wealth from industrialisation, they set about a wholesale repair and modernisation programme; on the downside, they gave virtually not a jot for the centuries of history wrapped up in those old churches, and very often just knocked stuff down and rebuilt, 'better' and bigger. When you start noticing it, it makes you realise how few churches remain unscathed by the (well-meaning) vandals.

 

[Tizme]

St Nicholas' Church, Kilton:

 

[briantrumpet]

MBIFO St Pancras' Church, one of the relics of Exeter's medieval past, now preserved in the middle of a 1970s shopping centre.

 

[Tizme]

3 From today:
St Etheldreda, St Audries, West Quantoxhead:

http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Somerset/West_Quantoxhead/pictures/1181797


St George's, Bicknoller:

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/bicknoller.htm

Church of the Holy Ghost, Crowcombe:

https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/somerset/churches/crowcombe.htm

 

[briantrumpet]

Plymtree, Devon. Wonderful outside, but its contents are something else!

 

[Blue Hills]

Do tell us more.

Or at least hint.

 

[biggs682]

Strixton church and my Cougar