Post by John Parry on Oct 1, 2008 9:27:42 GMT -5
At the risk of boring most of you senseless again, here's another lot of pictures of a local church. This time the church itself is pretty old - 11 hundred and something, built of the local (almost white) granite.
The bell-ringers have to stand outside...
And the outer door is unusual - to keep the sheep out of the porch (they crop the grass in the graveyard)...
There is the stem of another ancient cross (two in fact). This one is even older than the Gosforth and Santon ones - made about 600AD...
And an eighteenth century sundial (with the other cross stem at the base). The sundial pointer is at head height. "Who would be able to tell the time from that?", you may well ask... Try someone on a horse.
Regards - John
The bell-ringers have to stand outside...
And the outer door is unusual - to keep the sheep out of the porch (they crop the grass in the graveyard)...
There is the stem of another ancient cross (two in fact). This one is even older than the Gosforth and Santon ones - made about 600AD...
And an eighteenth century sundial (with the other cross stem at the base). The sundial pointer is at head height. "Who would be able to tell the time from that?", you may well ask... Try someone on a horse.
Regards - John
