Todays Church - St Martin, North Perrott
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Now THAT one looks haunted!
Are you using some sort of filter or editing on those photos? Or was it just the natural light. It looks sort of monochrome in a cool way.
Are you using some sort of filter or editing on those photos? Or was it just the natural light. It looks sort of monochrome in a cool way.
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In photo#1, the entry gate looks rather Romanesque. How old is St. Martin?
I also love the stone wall. Having built two or three in my time, I have a great fondness for stone walls--dry stone, none of this newfangled glued-together nonsense!
I also love the stone wall. Having built two or three in my time, I have a great fondness for stone walls--dry stone, none of this newfangled glued-together nonsense!
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It may be 12th century, but it looks older than Stonehenge, and somber
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That is one huge tree (especially the trunk's girth) in photo #7. Is that an optical illusion?
No, it is huge, I was thinking it might be older than 2000 years.
I'm gonna stick a tape in the car for next time I go that way.
We were brought up to believe that Yew trees were in church yards as the wood was needed for bows and arrows and the fences kept livestock from grazing the poisonous leaves and berries, but a guy a few years back did some research and found they were much older than first thought, many of them were sacred to the pagans before the churches were built.
The christians turned the old sacred sites into christian ones, but left the sacred trees to keep the locals happy.
They're not an easy tree to do dedrocronology on as many of them rot from the inside, but the one above looks solid so it may be possible to date
I'm gonna stick a tape in the car for next time I go that way.
We were brought up to believe that Yew trees were in church yards as the wood was needed for bows and arrows and the fences kept livestock from grazing the poisonous leaves and berries, but a guy a few years back did some research and found they were much older than first thought, many of them were sacred to the pagans before the churches were built.
The christians turned the old sacred sites into christian ones, but left the sacred trees to keep the locals happy.
They're not an easy tree to do dedrocronology on as many of them rot from the inside, but the one above looks solid so it may be possible to date