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click photo to enlarge It is customary for English churches to have a bell tower that rises above the top of the nave and chancel roofs. ...

click photo to enlarge Lincolnshire has many notable medieval churches, and those of the Fens are particularly remarkable. They were buil...

click photo to enlarge When I engaged in paid, daily work I always regretted that I didn't have the time to watch the seasons change ...

click photo to enlarge Perhaps I was tempting fate posting a piece entitled " In praise of things compact " because shortly a...

click photo to enlarge Heraldic coats of arms as we know them today became common in Europe around the middle of the twelfth century. Th...

click photo to enlarge The village of Kempley in Gloucestershire is fortunate to have two wonderful churches. One dates from 1902-3 and ...

click photo to enlarge As fonts go the example at Swineshead church in Lincolnshire is very plain. So plain that it is impossible to dat...

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph is another of my recently scanned slides from 1986. It shows the remarkable south door of ...

click photo to enlarge In my very first paid job I worked with a man who often described makeshift engineering work as "crude but e...

click photos to enlarge I spent enough of my career standing addressing people to know that there are times when, no matter how enthused...

click photo to enlarge I get regular requests from companies asking if they can use one or more of my photographs. In the main they are ...

click photo to enlarge If churches had never required tall bell towers that could ring the call to service across a wide area then the build...

click photo to enlarge The very best photographs of church stained glass come about when the exposure is carefully planned. What is it most ...

click photo to enlarge My interest in church architecture leads me to read a lot about the architects of the Victorian period: the major nam...

click photo to enlarge I can't imagine that Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford, had an inklin...

click photo to enlarge It would be quite easy to fill several shelves of a library with books about the repair and restoration of historic b...

click photos to enlarge If there is a single sound that characterises England it has to be that of church bells sounding out across the roof...

click photo to enlarge It is all too easy to imagine the zealots of the English Reformation rampaging through our churches, smashing the ...

click photo to enlarge When I visit a church that I haven't been to before I frequently read its description in "Pevsner". The...

click photo to enlarge Churchyard trees are the bane of my photographic life - but I wouldn't be without them! Most English churches are...