Showing posts with label Churches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Churches. Show all posts
Tuesday
1970s Postcard Of St Enodoc Church, Daymer Bay, Cornwall
A 1970s postcard of St Enodoc Church, Daymer Bay, Nr, Rock, Cornwall. The church has a little slate brooch spire over its Norman tower. Near to the church is Jesus Well once used for curing whooping cough.
See also:
Postcard Of Charlestown, Cornwall, England
Also For photos of Cornwall click here
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Holy Cross, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, England
1950s postcard of the Holy Cross, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear, England.
The Church of the Holy Cross dates back to 1145AD and was built by the monks from Jarrow Priory using Roman stone taken from the nearby Hadrian's Wall. The church was used for public worship until 1798 after which time it became derelict, the stone foundations and grave were restored and a steel railing erected in 1909 to protect the site. Source
Other Wallsend Old Postcards:
1910 Rising Sun Coal Mine Wallsend Postcard
1960s Photo Of Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England Taken From The Air
High Street East, Wallsend-on-Tyne, England - 1960s Postcard
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Tyne and Wear
Thursday
Parish Church, Warboys, Cambridgeshire, England Postcard
The postcard is from 1975 and is of the Parish Church, Warboys, Cambridgeshire, England.
To quote from Wikipedia:
"The earliest church of which there is now evidence was built in the middle of the 12th century, probably when the church and its possessions were granted by Abbot Walter to the almonry of Ramsey Abbey. This church consisted of the present nave and a north aisle. The chancel arch, the responds at each end of the north aisle and a small piece of walling at the south-west corner of the nave of this church still survive.
Early in the 13th century, the Norman north aisle, with the arcade, was rebuilt and immediately after, the south aisle with its arcade was added. In the middle of the 13th century the west tower, with its broached spire of ashlar, was built, and it was evidently intended at this date to extend the aisles westwards to the line of the west wall of the tower. If this intention was then carried out, the south extension was rebuilt in the latter part of the 14th century when the south porch was added. The north extension was also rebuilt in the early part of the 15th century when the north porch was added.
The chancel was rebuilt and shortened before the beginning of the 19th century and, in 1832, it was extended eastwards apparently to its original length and considerably altered. At this date large galleries were erected in both aisles and the tower, the floor being lowered a foot to give headroom under them. The east wall above the chancel arch, and west wall of the tower, were cased in lath and plaster, a vestry was formed at the west end of the north aisle, all the walls were coated with thick plaster and wooden mouldings fixed below the clearstory window and in other places. The spire was restored in 1898 and in 1926 the tower and south aisle were underpinned. The additions of 1832 (except those to the chancel) were removed and the floor restored to its former level."
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Cambridgeshire,
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England,
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Saturday
Trafalgar Square And St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London England Postcard
It's unusual to see a postcard of Trafalgar Square, London without it showing Nelson's Column. This photo features the church of St Martin In The Fields instead.
St Martin-in-the-Fields is at the north-east corner of Trafalgar Square and is dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. There has been a church here since the medieval period, though the present building - constructed to a Neoclassical design by James Gibbs - is dated 1722–1724.
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1970s Postcard,
Churches,
England,
London,
Postcard
Postcard of St Mary's Church, Hayes, Middlesex, England
Postcard with a picture of St Mary the Virgin Church (mostly called St Mary's), Hayes, Middlesex. The church dates back to the 13th century and is a bit special to me as this is where I was Christened and my parents were married.
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1980s Postcard,
Churches,
England,
Middlesex,
Postcard
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