Monday 9 April 2012

Monday.


To continue yesterday's blog, after Libby Jeans's baptismal service in Terrington Saint John's Church yesterday, refreshments were served, also in the church. Above photo shows the younger generation of the family tucking into the refreshments. Ann's brother Tim is Libby's grandfather and the Churchwarden here.

 

The above snapshot shows Libby Jean being given her refreshments by her maternal Grannie, being watched admiringly by an Auntie, a great Aunt, and a Great Grannie.


We left these scenes of revelry at about a quarter to six, and drove home via Upwell, pausing to take the above and below photos of Upwell Church. We didn't go in, but it has (in my opinion) the second best Angel Roof in England. The best one is a few miles away in Saint Wendreda's Church at March in Cambridgeshire.


We then drove on to Welney, where we stopped in the churchyard for Ann to plant some Lilies-of-the-Valley on her mother's grave. They were her favourite flowers. We got home just after half past eight o'clock.  It had been a long but very satisfying day.
Good Night all.

2 comments:

Crowbard said...

I think that's St Peter's church at Upwell. Started in C13th. and added to in C14th. & C15th. I can't recall ever entering it, but I must have passed it more than two thousand times in my school-days.
Saint Wendreda's Church at March I've seen only rarely but I think I've been inside a couple of times. It had a double hammer-beam roof with 120 carved angels at my last count about 50 years ago.

Unknown said...

The angel roof at Upwell would probably be as good as the one in march, but around the year 1800 a large gallery was inserted in the church, so that the view of the roof is rather obscured by the gallery. Pity, but the gallery now has some 200 years to its credit, although it is really not needed now (due to falling congregations over those two centuries, and the church would certainly look a lot better without it - a nice point of aesthetics and historical responsibilities.