Photo Advent - 7th December

[byslantedlight]

Turns out the local church is very pretty indeed, inside - a friend asked if I'd go to a Christmas choir concert with her, because she wanted to see what they were like (she sings), so I did. It was very village-choir-singing-carols, and a nice excuse to just sit and gaze about me, while trying not to fret because I had a headache all day and still needed to finish half the day's work.. *g* (Blimey - and I've just read that the church dates from the fourteenth century - I shall have to find out more! ... Okay, and the village is in the Domesday book - well I didn't know that - and there's a bronze age hillfort nearby. Cool. *g*)

Comments

[heliophile-oxon.livejournal.com]

ha, for a split second I thought that was a lovely brooch or bauble - until my brain went through 90 degrees and tipped me to looking upwards! *bg*. Coffering, is that what it's called, a coffered ceiling? But hmm, it's vaulted too ... Or am I thinking of something else ... argh, bad brain, no biscuit :-( Strange to think of such ancient places being sort of there all the time - around here they're all mostly invisible or buried far under our feet, until archaeologists and historians show them to us :-)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

It does rather look like a brooch, doesn't it! I quite like abstract-y photos like that, where they suddenly tip you in other directions - so I hope you didn't mind too much. *g* And ooh yes, I bet it's coffered. And vaulted. It was high, anyway... *g*

I always think you've got so many thousands of places like this though, in London! I know lots of new buildings have taken lots of old buildings places, but then you look up and there's a hidden corner with an ancient face staring at you, or a ghost-sign, or a blue plaque... *g*