Church Interiors - an open thread.

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The paintings were painted over during the Reformation, and have been restored ...
 
Hi, the nativity scene in St.Peter, Mainz/D will be complete by Christmas :


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Hi, Merry Christmas to You and Yours !!! --- St. Peter in Mainz/D :


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All Saints Church in Claverley Shropshire in the grounds is a 2500 year old plus Yew tree and there are dates and peoples names scratched into the church outer walls by peoples families that could not afford a grave marker.

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St.Andrew's, Mells, Someset.

The equestrian statue is of Edward Horner, who was killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. It is by Alfred Munnings, and stands on a plinth by Sir Edwin Lutyens which bears more than a passing resemblance to another more famous Lutyens commemorative piece, the Cenotaph in Whitehall. Horner's sister Katherine was married to Raymond Asquith, eldest son of the Prime Minister H.H.Asquith. Raymond had himself been killed at the Somme in 1916, and his name can be seen on the plinth behind the Horner memorial. The wreath visible on the tower wall in the background, and the inscription below it, also by Lutyens, commemorates the life of Raymond Asquith.

The seat of the Asquith family (and formerly of the Horner family) is the Manor House next to the church. H H Asquith's daughter Violet is the grandmother of the actress Helena Bonham-Carter. Violet and several members of the Bonham-Carter family are interred in the churchyard, as is Siegfried Sassoon and his mentor, the Roman-Catholic priest Ronald Knox.

Edward Horner's family is the source of the eponymous nursery rhyme. He was the last male member of the family, and the name therefore died with him.
 
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I superimposed the soldier on to the perspex cut out in ps.
 
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