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18/07/201423/07/2014 François Matarasso The Light Ships

An elephant in Moulton

It never occurred to me that elephants would feature in a project about village churches, but they keep turning up. This one lies on a carpet in the children’s area of Moulton Church, waiting for some small person to sit on him. There seems nothing incongruous about him in this graceful medieval building: both serve … Continue reading An elephant in Moulton

27/05/201430/05/2014 François Matarasso The Light Ships

An elephant in Whaplode

It’s easy to love elephants: they’re so huge, so gentle, so strange, so grey. Still, it was a little surprising to find a second elephant in a Fenland church, after the mediaeval one at Gosberton. I came across this cheerful chap in the north transept of Whaplode Church, when I visited a few weeks ago. … Continue reading An elephant in Whaplode

25/04/201426/04/2014 François Matarasso Applied art, History, Visual art

An elephant in Gosberton

The steeple of St Peter and St Paul’s in Gosberton reaches 160 feet into the Lincolnshire sky. Stone spires are a special feature of churches in the East Midlands, and Gosberton’s is one of the loveliest. Each angle of the octagon is decorated with little crockets, while four exceedingly thin – and structurally useless – … Continue reading An elephant in Gosberton

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