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
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
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
The Light Ships 