Simon Smith

Often to be found in a church, lover of travel, art and architecture.

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Booton, St Michael & All Angels, Norfolk

Norfolk’s “Marmite” church, the vision of Rev. Whitwell Elwin, rector here for 50 years, who died in 1900, aged 83.

#TowerTuesday
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Salle, St Peter & St Paul, Norfolk

Salle has acres of clear glass, but some medieval coloured glass remains, such as here in upper lights of the east window.

#StainedGlassSunday
#Norfolk #norfolkchurches

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Long Melford, Holy Trinity, Suffolk

The original tower was destroyed by lightning in 1701, and replaced with a brick tower in 1725. This tower was encased in flint by Bodley in 1903, but is a poor attempt at replicating a traditional Suffolk tower.

#SteepleSaturday
#Suffolk

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Long Melford, Holy Trinity, Suffolk

The font here is Perpendicular and made of Purbeck marble, unusual in Suffolk. The cover is by H.M. Cautley, 1936.

#FontsonFriday
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Chelsea, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square

The east window is the largest window created by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. The lower lights feature 48 saints from the Bible story.

#StainedGlassSunday
#London #artsandcrafts

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Stonham Parva, St Mary, Suffolk

Towers like this, with its pairs of short double belfry windows and two-tiered parapets, are distinctive to Suffolk. This example is 15thC.

#SteepleSaturday
#suffolkchurches #Suffolk

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Chelsea, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square

The font was designed by Onslow Ford.

#FontsonFriday
#London #church

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Norwich Cathedral viewed from St James Hill during golden hour this evening.

#Norwich #cathedral #norfolkchurches
@Nrw_Cathedral

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Wiveton, St Mary, Norfolk

Late 14thC octagonal font.

#FontsonFriday
#Norfolk #norfolkchurches

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Norwich, St Benedict

Image from c.1910. The church, and the area around it, was bombed in January 1942. Today, only the tower remains, surrounded by the Pottergate housing scheme built in the 1980s.

#Norwich #norfolkchurches

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Overstrand, St Martin, Norfolk

St Martin’s had been left to become a ruin when a new church, Christ Church, was built next to it in 1867.

St Martin’s was later restored, reopening in 1914, and Christ Church was demolished.

#TowerTuesday
#Norfolk #norfolkchurches

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Norwich, St Paul

A 15thC church with a Norman round tower. Gutted by incendiary bombs during the Blitz and then demolished by Horace Rowley, City Engineer, to make way for the inner ring road.

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Saffron Walden, St Mary the Virgin, Essex

The west tower is early 16thC, completed c.1525. The octagonal spire was added in 1831 by Rickman & Hutchinson.

#SteepleSaturday
#Essex #church

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Binham, St Mary, Norfolk

One of Norfolk’s 25 medieval Seven Sacrament fonts.

#FontsonFriday
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Binham, St Mary, Norfolk

Hidden Figures!
The 15thC rood screen dado was whitewashed over in the 16thC and biblical text was painted on top. Over time the whitewash has flaked off, revealing the original figures below.

#norfolk #norfolkchurches #medieval #art

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Binham, St Mary, Norfolk

Medieval bench end showing a cleric preaching from a pulpit.

#woodensday
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@fugitiveink @SimoninSuffolk That is a shame, the current glass is certainly distinctive, but it does make the building a bit gloomy in low light.

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Wiveton, St Mary the Virgin, Norfolk

The aisle windows here are all the same design of striped green and orange glass. They work well on sunny days, but make the church feel rather gloomy on overcast days.

#StainedGlassSunday
#Norfolk #norfolkchurches

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@SimoninSuffolk I know what you mean, it was a bit like that yesterday when I was there.

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Letheringsett, St Andrew, Norfolk

The lower part of the tower here is quite possibly Saxon. The upper belfry stage was added in the 14thC and is also round rather than the more typical octagonal.

#SteepleSaturday
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