![]() ![]() #Youtube awesometable imagetype full#The clerestory and aisle windows are huge, and although the east window is full of coloured glass, it too is vast, one of the widest I've seen. I suppose that he’s approached by someone with a similar complaint at least twice a day. Incidentally, when I met him and pointed out his omission of Redgrave and Westhall, he looked at me as if I was some kind of sad lunatic. It would fit quite comfortably into his three star category along with the likes of Westhall which he also missed. Simon Jenkins ignored it in England’s Thousand Best Churches most probably, he didn’t know about it. St Mary is big it is a little-known church, but has more to offer than most. However, Redgrave’s tower is white brick, and would be quite at home in the City of London, if a little more austere than most there.Īttached to it is a huge church. Mostly, they are red brick, as at Layham, and rather less successfully Grundisburgh. Suffolk has a handful of towers rebuilt in the 18th century. The sun came out, and the tower of St Mary was ahead of me. I left this behind, and a deep cutting of a lane led me up and out into open fields. There’s nowhere else in Suffolk quite like it. Occasionally, as at Wortham, there are settlements which seem carved out of the common land. Now, they have been let go back to nature, and are in many places covered in gorse and furze, with outcroppings of angular trees. The Commons and Greens around here were still, until half a century ago, intensively grazed. I had cycled through the Long Green, a strange, otherworldly place. ![]() However, this was not apparent to me, as I approached it from the direction of Wortham Common. Redgrave is one of those large and relatively self-sufficient villages that you get more in the north and west of Suffolk than around Ipswich. Posted by Simon Knott alias Simon Knott on Monday 27th of July 2015 04:03:28 PM ![]()
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