Lidgate St Mary’s
At first glance, you might think St Mary’s at Lidgate is a fairly prosaic Suffolk parish church. Set back from the road at the end of a lane and accessed via …
At first glance, you might think St Mary’s at Lidgate is a fairly prosaic Suffolk parish church. Set back from the road at the end of a lane and accessed via …
Along a quiet lane in the Suffolk village of Troston lies St Mary’s church. And within can be found some of the county’s finest medieval wall paintings, if not England’s.
Entering through the …
Is this the location of Edmund’s coronation? Along a deserted farm track, hidden amidst woodland and overlooking the Stour Valley, is the ancient thatched church of St Stephen, also known as Chapel Barn.
On …
The A12’s bisection of Blythburgh could easily destroy any atmosphere this important village might retain. But walking down Church Road, a sense of expectation builds. Then the roar of traffic …
A wodewose (derived from the Old English wudu – wood or forest) is a ‘wild man’; a hairy forest-dwelling embodiment of nature, closely linked in its symbolism to the green …
The flint round-towered churches of Suffolk are some of its most enigmatic and atmospheric. Sometimes remote and isolated, often hidden from view behind a screen of trees, these towers loom out …