“The elaborate roof was restored after a fire in 1590, the beams being stencilled and painted rather than carved. The rood screen is a modern work of 1921 by the Devon carver, Fellowes Prynne.”
Month: June 2016
Lenham, St Mary, Kent, *
“Denham’s treasure is a lofty and opulent Elizabethan pulpit with superb carvings.”
Maidstone, All Saints, Kent, **
“Pure Perpendicular, with a grandeur and unity of style rarely seen outside the wool counties.”
Barfreston, St Nicholas, Kent, ****
“The south doorway can scarcely be rivalled in England for rich and well-preserved late Norman carving.”
Jordans, Meeting House, Buckinghamshire, **
“Jordan’s is the Quaker Westminster Abbey.”
Stoke Poges, St Giles, Buckinghamshire, **
“Stoke has two extraordinary windows. One is located in the south aisle and commemorates a child Howard Vyse and has two lights, one showing the child slipping from the arms of its mother and the other it being received by an angel. The eerie figures rise into a night sky above a shoreline and a broken column. I have seen nothing like it.”
