St Mary, Wissington, Suffolk : 無料・フリー素材/写真
St Mary, Wissington, Suffolk / amandabhslater
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Having just visited the Bures Dragon, we felt obliged to follow up with a visit to Wissington church, where the local dragon is also celebrated!On the north wall is a late 14th-century painting of a very lively looking dragon, painted over an earlier scene. The Chronicle of Henry de Blaneford of St Albans Abbey, written in 1405 reads:'In these days there appeared lately an evil dragon of excessive length with a huge body, crested head, saw-like teeth and elongated tail in land near the town of Bures near Sudbury, which destroyed and killed a herd of sheep. The servants of Sir Richard Waldegrave who owns the land haunted by the dragon came forth to shoot it with arrows which sprang back from its ribs as if they were metal of hard stone and from the spines if its back with a jangling as if they were hitting bronze plates, and flew far away because its skin was impenetrable. Almost the whole county was summoned to slaughter it but when it saw that it was to be shot at again, it fled into the marsh, hid in the reeds and was seen no more.'St Mary's church sits almost on the banks of the Stour at the southern end of the roughly surfaced road leading down through farms to the cluster by the river. A very good example of Norman Romanesque architecture from the 12th century, the nave, chancel and apse (other than latter restoration and "enhancement") forming a single build. In addition the southern doorway is described as "sumptuous by Pevsner and is also of the same period. Speculation exists that a chancel tower may have existed but that either did not or has been removed, the only elevated piece being the weatherboarded bell turret. The restoration of 1853 went further than most by attempting to enhance the Norman credentials of the church, failing by "over prettification" according to Pevsner, the apse was rebuilt and made grander in particular. A major feature of the church is its collection of 13th century wall paintings dated to the period 1250 to 1275 which, albeit fragmentary are well worth a look.www.tinstaafl.co.uk/eandwhmi/suffolk/church%20pages/wissi... |
| 撮影日 | 2025-04-17 14:32:46 |
| 撮影者 | amandabhslater , Coventry, West Midlands, UK |
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| 撮影地 | Babergh District, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | DC-TZ200 , Panasonic |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.3 |
| 焦点距離 | 0.1.0.0 |