Showing posts with label st marys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label st marys. Show all posts
Sunday, 10 February 2013
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Hollow Tower: The Ruins of St Marys, Kirby Bedon
The remains of the round-towered St Marys, in the quiet parish of Kirby Bedon. Supposedly falling into disuse around 1700, there is another medieval church in the village, still in use today - St Andrews, just across the street.
You can stand inside the tower of this one, which makes a nice change from the usual locked gateway. The birds nesting at the top don't seem too happy when visitors with cameras come calling. Bombarded with squalks and bird droppings, I nevertheless escaped unscathed.
You can stand inside the tower of this one, which makes a nice change from the usual locked gateway. The birds nesting at the top don't seem too happy when visitors with cameras come calling. Bombarded with squalks and bird droppings, I nevertheless escaped unscathed.
Saturday, 19 June 2010
The Ruins of St Mary
The ruins of St Mary, Great Melton, stand in the same graveyard of All Saints, the church that replaced it. St Mary operated until the 1880s, when it was decided to renovate the larger, practically derelict, All Saints, and move the congregation across. St Mary was demolished and the materials used to repair its neighbour, only its tower spared.
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