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Lovely series.
Sylvia
Sylvia
Interesting looking ruin, which I thought looked liked ones that Henry VIII, closed down. However, research found :-
At one time if you had come this way you would have found one of Norfolk's biggest churches, its powerful tower supporting a 150-foot spire. But one morning of high winds in the autumn of 1948 the spire tottered, the tower crumbled and they both came crashing down into the church below.
Although by some miracle the early 16th Century Bedingfield Chapel at the east end of the south aisle had survived. The former tower and nave area have been grassed over now, the north arcade and aisle wall retained as a kind of colonnade evocative of classical ruins, the chancel given a new west wall and becoming the new church and the Bedingfield chapel given its own entrance.
Ian
At one time if you had come this way you would have found one of Norfolk's biggest churches, its powerful tower supporting a 150-foot spire. But one morning of high winds in the autumn of 1948 the spire tottered, the tower crumbled and they both came crashing down into the church below.
Although by some miracle the early 16th Century Bedingfield Chapel at the east end of the south aisle had survived. The former tower and nave area have been grassed over now, the north arcade and aisle wall retained as a kind of colonnade evocative of classical ruins, the chancel given a new west wall and becoming the new church and the Bedingfield chapel given its own entrance.
Ian
