The woods are just starting to green up in the warm Spring sunshine...
Mays Wood |
Wingate Wood |
Wood Anenomes... |
The deep ploughing of the fields for the planting of vines has started. It is not pretty...
Luddesdown valley - view from Wrenches Shaw |
Luddesdown Church looks rather splendid at this time of year...
Luddesdown Church... |
Luddesdown Church... |
Taken from the above web-page: "St Peter and
"The history of Luddesdowne
Church , post-Conquest, is
poorly documented and has to be read against the fate of the Norman knights and
their successors who acquired the manor. Following the church reforms of Henry III, many noblemen
rebuilt their own small, cramped manorial churches, and this probably happened
in Luddesdowne, where the earliest verifiable fabric, seen in the north and
west walls, dates from the thirteenth century.
The tower and south aisle were then added in the 14th century,
and so the church acquired the basic form in which it stands today. However, in
1865 the nave roof fell in requiring a major rebuilding. The reconstructed
church was consecrated in 1867. Over the course of the next three decades the
rector the Revd Alfred Wigan and his family furnished and decorated the church
in accordance with their high church Oxford Movement tastes. Notably, they
employed the firm of Heaton, Butler
and Bayne to install stained glass windows and the fine set of wall and ceiling
paintings which survive to this day.
Other historical features of note surviving in the church include a 14th century log ladder in the tower, three medieval bells, a 15th century brass, and a fine Caen stone reredos depicting the Last Supper installed in 1873 and designed by Ewan Christian."
I decided to walk back along Warren Road. The venerable oak on the corner of the junction with Cobhambury Road has yet to strike leaf, but is surrounded by a carpet of yellow Celandines...
Other historical features of note surviving in the church include a 14th century log ladder in the tower, three medieval bells, a 15th century brass, and a fine Caen stone reredos depicting the Last Supper installed in 1873 and designed by Ewan Christian."
I decided to walk back along Warren Road. The venerable oak on the corner of the junction with Cobhambury Road has yet to strike leaf, but is surrounded by a carpet of yellow Celandines...
Oak, Warren Road |
Celandines... |
The hawthorns were in full blossom...
Hawthorns, Warren Road... |
This young oak tree appears to be arising out of the ruins of its ancestor...
Dog Violets were putting up a good display nearby...
Dog Violets... |
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