This sneezeweed, a plant about which I wrote some years back, I found growing in the walled garden at Lincolnshire’s Gunby Hall. If ever a flower looked like a fire, even without long, lily-like petals, this would be it. A flower that looks like a fire? -Why, yes!
The University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford is one of those soaring landmarks for which that ancient city is famous. I nevertheless considered its tower too broad, and its multi-pinnacled spire too complicated, giving an impression of strength rather than elegance. The insides are rather pleasant, however, with the gallery affording a good survey of the whole, below.
St Bridget's Church in Bridekirk, Cumbria, was built in the late 1860s. It replaced a twelfth-century building, the remains of which stand in the churchyard (below). Thankfully, the rebuilders decided to transport several of the original features, including a doorway, into the new construction, as well as the ancient font.
The handsome, and well-proportioned Congregational Chapel at Kelvedon in Essex was built in 1853 as the datestone proudly shares. In typical Congregational fashion, this chapel came several years after the founding of the actual church, the gathering of believers. The first members banded together in 1812 and this was their solemn and heart-warming declaration:
In memory of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, who was called home to be with King Jesus, this third day of September, 1658.
The labour of the righteous tendeth to life: but the revenues of the wicked to sin. -Proverbs 10:16;
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