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Friday 5 November 2010

Stocking Pelham

St Mary was rather unsurprisingly locked and I suspect that there would be little, monumentally speaking, of interest to be seen. However it's rather sweet and I bet mass, especially a sung mass, would be great.

ST MARY. Small church, of chancel and wide nave (the Royal Commission suggests it might originally have had a wooden S arcade because the S wall is not in line with the chancel). Mid C14 according to the remaining chancel N window and the remarkably original nave window. - No furnishings of interest.



St Mary (2)


Stocking Pelham. It has three good companions, a little church, a barn about twice as big, and the rectory still guarded by part of its old moat. The plain little church has been here about 600 years, and in its belfry hangs a bell which may have rung out the news of Agincourt. Its business, it tells us in Latin, is to drive away all evil things. One other link has this church with the Long Ago, fragments of glass five or six centuries old.

1 comment:

  1. A lovely, little old church. What I would expect to find in this part of the country. Wonderful, a delightful place to worship the Creator. I look forward to seeing it and perhaps one day worshipping here.

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