Numinous

Above:  drab day, overcast and cold.  In the afternoon a drive to a village in the south east of the county.  Half a dozen houses, a ringwork "castle" and a stone church outwardly medieval but actually 1865.  I had to get the key from a cottage opposite.  Large number of mud-encrusted wellington boots outside the back door, lying any old how.  The churchwarden, an elderly lady, accompanied me round the church - coughing with the cold air.  The graveyard spongy underfoot.

Above:  the old rectory could be seen from the graveyard, monstrous in appearance.  This is the back which is dated 1804 - the front was put on in 1888.  Fragment of a Saxon cross used as a garden ornament.

Above:  the interior was untouched Victorian.  Plastic coverings everywhere because bats live in the building (and as a protected species cannot be ejected.  I was very impressed by the candelabras either side of the altar.

A numinous building.  I am glad I made the effort to visit it.  The congregation is tiny, so who knows how long it will remain open.