Stiffleaf's photos
clavering corbel
clavering interior
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C15th with original roofs - tie beam in nave with fine figures alternating. A real East Anglian church complete with Norwich glass and good screen too with ghosts of dado saints..
clavering pulpit
clavering essex
clavering nave roof
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One of the seraphim from the nave; the angels here seem to have escaped much destruction or restoration: this one has one of its three pairs of wings.
clavering boss
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One of several bosses from the centre of the nave roof: C15th tho' he looks almost C12th.
clavering angel
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A large bolt head pins this feathered angel into place. These angels are believed to copy the costumes from religious dramas of the time, feathered tights and all.
clavering angel
clavering angel
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clavering knight C13th
clavering knight C13th
rickling exterior
rickling interior
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Chunky quatrefoil pier design popular in the N.W. of Essex c.1300, here framing a view towards the chancel arch and its early C14th screen
rickling pulpit C.15th
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Pulpits became needed in parish churches as preaching became more popular in the C15th
rickling screen
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C14th forged hinge on door of rood screen: the congregation spent little time in the chancel which was the domain and concern of the priest; the doors were bolted shut generally.
rickling rood screen
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Little columns complete with bases and shaft rings show Dec. carpenters still thinking lithically, as if in stone,in this early chancel screen
stansted mountfitchet
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One of two enormous Norman doorways to the nave, early enough to show chip carving done with an axe rather than hammer and chisel work
