As usual I have been very naughty and interpreted 'My Town' as virtually the whole of mainland Britain though the above one is just down the road - at Eastham on the Wirral. Hopefully my cheating will be forgiven. As can be told by the state of some of the photos they are from my archives asnd the dirty appearance of some is because they were scanned in from slides and I failed to clean the slides properly. Silly me.
This one is My Town - Liverpool.
Exeter Cathedral in Devon has lots of towers and spires.
This little church is at Altcar on Merseyside, not far from Liverpool.
Another Wirral church - Capenhurst.
This slide is labelled as Deerhurst Church in Gloucestershire but it isn't. It was taken on that Cotswold cycling holiday, in 1965, but I've labelled it wrongly. I wonder where it was?
How's this for an unusual spire - Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire.
And here is an octagonal spire at Fifield in Oxfordshire.
And, of course, I had to include a weathercock - this one is just down the road at Thurstaston on the Wirral.
If you would like to see what spires, steeples and weathervanes other members of the gang have found please click on this FMTSO link.
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I love spires, steeples, and weather vanes. Reading your profile I realize that I am not the only one who dislikes the telephone. :)
ReplyDeleteExtraordinary selections for this week's theme. I certainly enjoyed your photos very much.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous churches, love them all!
ReplyDeleteThe spire at Haverfordwest looks unusual indeed, and the Altcar church seems to be as welcoming and cosy as a house, which very much befits the original idea of a church, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteI have always thought that the Episcopalians in the US had a talent for good church architecture and I always assumed that it was due to heredity. Your pictures prove it is so.
ReplyDeleteI so love the steeples of old churches. Great photos here and thanks for sharing. Happy weekend!
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I for one have no objection ;) except it gets me itching to go on a tour exploring things, which I know won't be happening. I love that church you say you labelled wrongly. Wooden tower on a stone building? Never seen that before. But I think my favourite is the timberframed one! Never seen a church like that either.
ReplyDeleteNo your not cheating with your world view of hometown,bscribe to that routinely but you are with your towers. You are at the epicenter of church towers as a topic....and that is 'like' unfair. I like scanned old photos to look like old photos or what is the point. The church that you don't know where the photo was taken is really unusual church for England, isn't it? not many churches large and small have wood towers. (?) I've been to the Exeter. wonder if I have old photos?
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Great photo essay, CJ. I love churches too -- you might want to check out my facebook page -- I am just now entering something about churches.
ReplyDeleteHope your poor ankle is feeling better and that you have a wonderful weekend,
Hugs, Carol
The one in Altcar reminds me of an old church we saw in Hyde Park New York that had been turned into a bar. Didn't look like my idea of a church at all. Maybe it was used for something else during the week. Hyde Park is a very old town and lots of European architecture there. Great photos.
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Nice weatherVANE you have there! 8-)
ReplyDeleteI can't actually see one of mine that doesn't have a spire or a weathervane on top, GingerV. Perhaps spire means something different where you are.
ReplyDeleteI think my punctuation/typing failed me again. (and oftem my way of stateing things from a twisted perspective) I didn't mean you were cheating with "no spire or weathervane on top" but that you cheat because you have so many examples of weathervane ect. ... available to you...Cheat being used in a playful way.
DeleteAll your churches are wonderful.... the epicenter being were it all began - England, northern Europe and Germany having the great cathedrals with spires... I wonder how often my comments are misunderstood and I've not a clue, Lol.
Ah, now we understand each other, GingerV. Glad we cleared that up - it seemed so unlike you to leave a critical comment (even in jest) that I had to pursue it. :-D
ReplyDeleteif you didn't confess, I won't have known, probably many others, except Bagman.
ReplyDeleteDid the Beatles go to that church in Liverpool?
I'm not sure The Beatles went to church much, Ann, but if they did they would have been unlikely to have gone to either of the Cathedrals except on special occasions. The city has many dozens of local churches.
ReplyDeleteFantastic shots -- I have lots of poorly scanned slide shots too so I understand the problem. But they also have a kind of historic feel to them.
ReplyDeleteI like the wrongly labelled tower and spire, too. It has a comforting feel about it - probably because I am more accustomed to wooden churches. I've never seen a church here with a clock on it, a divine message about punctuality perhaps?
ReplyDeleteVery interesting. Some of those look oddly familiar- I almost expect to see Rapunzel peeking out from the top window. Cool pics!
ReplyDeleteMy vote goes to Capenhurst and Haverfordwest. Oh, that's two votes. I always notice the local style of churches, and the way that in some places the older churches almost never have spires, whereas thirty miles up the road, all the old churches have spires. I suppose there were fashions in church building just like in everything else.
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