St Mary, Excellent Addington, Northamptonshire
From Woodford, I cycled over 1 past ridge and then down to Terrific Addington, in which the church was open, with a “Church Open” signal outside. Set at a road junction, the east and west finishes of the church in direction of two of the roads and the south facial area presenting a very satisfying prospect to the third. a Dec church with the Norman font of its predecessor, and Arts & Crafts furnishings, all quite charming. The 1490s alabaster effigy of Sir Henry Vere who died on the battlefield at Bosworth is unceremoniously tucked powering the organ in the north chancel chapel, most likely its initial site, while there is an previously tomb recess in the south aisle exactly where Arthur Mee observed the effigy in the 1930s (or says he did). There are also a few of brasses, but all in all I imagined this church was increased than the sum of its pieces, a incredibly pleasant position.
Across the lakes shaped by the Nene right here, hectic with canoeists and walkers, into the fairly suburban village of Ringstead (you know, the form of village that has an Indian takeaway and a females hairdresser) and the church of St Mary, which was also open, with a “Church Open, Welcome!” indicator outside. Really contrary to any other church I frequented right now, simply because it was complete of gentle shafting by major, obvious Perpendicular home windows, no coloured glass at all. The interior uncluttered, good woodwork, what my late close friend Tom Muckley employed to connect with ‘seemly and fitting for Anglican worship’. The aspect altar has a tabernacle, suggesting that there was after an Anglo-catholic custom listed here, and it is even now utilized to reserve the sacrament, the altar dressed pleasingly with candlesticks and flowers. A extremely likeable church.
Ringstead promptly turned Denford, a posh suburb of Thrapston, and right here was the church of Holy Trinity. Locked, no keyholder notice as this sort of, although each churchwardens were stated. I rang each numbers, but both had been out. This was my one fantastic disappointment of the day, since the church has a great assortment of Flemish roundels donated in the 1960s, and I would incredibly a lot like to have found them. A major church with a right Nene Valley spire, and why not, for the river operates guiding it.
Thrapston was en fête for the yearly constitution truthful. It was a few o’clock, and I had a 20 mile bike ride in advance of me back again to Huntingdon. The wind had dropped, but it even now helped me climb again into Cambridgeshire and then a little bit down hill all the way to Huntingdon, where by I caught the 1650 to Peterborough and then the 1750 back again to Ipswich. Total distance cycled? About seventy miles.
Forty Northamptonshire church buildings! I really don’t think I at any time assumed that would happen. Northamptonshire now stands seventh driving Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Better London and Kent for the amount of churches I have frequented.
Posted by Simon Knott on 2017-07-12 08:02:31
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