Phew or Maybe Pew - They're 600 Years Old!

It's been a busy two days shuttling from pew to pew. The country lanes and minor roads in Lincolnshire seem to be laced with medieval churches. Our fascination with the historic is almost hysteric with the promise of medieval wall paintings just down the next road. Spires beckon from behind yet another copse of vibrantly green trees just across the fields which are golden with wheat. The weather has been idyllic so that driving is a pleasure - well almost.

Pickworth

The names of the villages where we visited the churches sound of the history of this county:  Brant Broughton, Welbourn, Fenton, Leadenham, Stubton, Beckingham, Corby Glen, Irnham, Silk Willoughby, Pickworth, Quarrington and Lenton.

I find it interesting to conjecture on what happened to the people who sat in the boxed pew that I sit in as I look at the 600 year old Rood Screen set across the Norman arch which itself is partly supported by Saxon Pillars. The remains of the medieval wall paintings on the Clerestory seem sad and unimpressive in terms of colour but their simple graphically nature outstrips the complex designs of the Victorian stained glass now decorating the east window. One church can span the whole of the religious history, and therefore social and political history, of England; that is the fascination of these churches.

Tomorrow... Colonia Domitiana Lindensivm Lindvm ... in search of the Eagle of the Ninth? ...