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22 October 2012

John Betjeman’s churches

One of our all-time favourite projects was Betjeman’s Best British Churches. And we still love misericords and the like.

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches, Photography

29 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Bradford-on-Avon

Tall but tight on the ground, St Laurence is thought to be one of England’s oldest Saxon churches. It possibly dates to as early as around AD700, but may have been rebuilt at the end of the first millennium. It was rediscovered as a church in the mid-19th century, having spent several centuries being used […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman, Betjeman's Best British Churches, Bradford-on-Avon, Saxon church, St Laurence

25 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Dale Abbey

An amazing semi-d church: tiny and attached to a farmhouse. It was clearly too small for purpose in the 17th/18th century, when box pews were added in any available space and galleries squeezed into the loft – only accessed via a separate entrance up an exterior staircase. It’s an absolute jumble of carpentry throughout. The […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: All Saints, Betjeman, Betjeman's Best British Churches, Dale Abbey

20 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Little Missenden

A charming church that straddles the ages in an attractive village that does much the same. The atmosphere inside the church is very special, with light falling across the rough walls and picking out the medieval wall-paintings and later monuments. Architecturally, it’s a mix of Norman, Early English and Perpendicular, with perhaps traces of Saxon […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman, Betjeman's Best British Churches, Little Missenden, St John the Baptist Church

17 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Redland Chapel, Bristol

Built as a private chapel, Redland is a fine Georgian church: neat and well-ordered. Wood panelling covers all the walls, interspersed with these cherub corbels.

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman's Best British Churches, Bristol, Redland Chapel

17 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol

A phenomenal church in the quality of its execution and the dramatic visual impact it offers when confronted by the view looking down the nave towards the chancel and altar. The careful delineation of the columns and vaulting above overwhelm the human scale; and, rather than soaring up from ground level, the slender columns appear […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman, Betjeman's Best British Churches, Bristol, St Mary Redcliffe

8 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Brentor, Dartmoor

Unsurprisingly this is a church that is all about location. From round about, it is a pinpoint on the horizon, an extra peak on the ridge at the western edge of Dartmoor; from the church itself, attention swiftly shifts to the 360-degree views of sheep-grazed uplands and arable lowlands, woodlands, village clusters and roadways between. […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman's Best British Churches, Brentor, Dartmoor, St Michael's Church

8 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Boxgrove, Sussex

What remains here is a substantial relic of a Benedictine Priory. Parts date from the 12th and 13th centuries, while the painting on the nave ceiling is later, dating to the 1520s. Depicting family crests enwrapped by vegetation, it is the work of one Lambert Barnard, a local artist, and was commissioned by Thomas de […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman's Best British Churches, Boxgrove, De la Warre, St Mary and St Blaise

1 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Bottesford

The church is home to a superabundance of decorative tombs, beautifully crafted for the most part, and necessitating the rebuilding of the chancel in the 17th century to accommodate them. The altar has been lost to the congregation behind all this extravagance. Sixteenth and seventeenth-century grandeur at its most fascinating, where egotism is matched by […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman, Bottesford, Earl of Rutland, St Mary

1 November 2011

Betjeman’s Best British Churches: Blythburgh, Suffolk

An exceptional church in every respect: far-off setting on heathland a couple of miles in from the sea, glorious array of Perpendicular windows and a wonderfully relaxed interior that’s spacious and light-filled. Above is a sublime angel roof, much battered during the Civil War and studiously repaired since – the dusty medieval paintwork remaining on […]

Written by Mike Ellis · Categorized: Betjeman's Best British Churches · Tagged: Betjeman's Best British Churches, Blythburgh, Holy Trinity

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