St George's Church, Stowlangtoft

 This church was locked when I've visited a couple of years ago so I was pleased to see the 'Church Open' sign.

When Simon Knott [Suffolk Churches website] visited here in 2018 he was told by the lady who let him in that the church was heading for redundancy, to be taken over by the Historic Churches Trust as it wasn't being used for services . But it seems this didn't happen and the church is now open at weekends and has a once a month service.

Opposite the door into the church is the WWI War memorial

Above it is the huge remains of a Medieval wall painting of St Christopher carrying the Christ Child over the water.

Octagonal font with seven saints and Christ carved in the panels

Every window has some stained glass, mostly Victorian

A very bad photo of a  drawing showing who's who in the East window glass

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People come here specially to see the Flemish wood panels of the reredos. They were given to the church by an owner of Stowlangtoft Hall and date from the 1480s. But in 1977 they were stolen and disappeared for five years until the were found in an Amsterdam gallery. Legal proceedings to get them back failed but luckily they were bought and all costs paid by a Dutch businessman and returned to the church. Now the Sanctuary and the panels are alarmed so hopefully they won't be stolen again.

Like the last church I visited at Framsden, Stowlangtoft also has misericord seats with carvings that survived better than Framsden.

There are lots of excellent carvings on the pew ends too

There's an online church brochure HERE for more information.


Back Tomorrow

April Car Boot Sale Finds?

Apart from that mistake of the shelf unit, purchases have been virtually non existent. .

A pack of charity Christmas cards for £1 and that's  it!  [except from a few plants].

I bought a red pepper plant for £1 when none of my first sowing germinated. [Now they've eventually appeared I'm going to have plenty!] I wasn't going to bother with aubergines as my preferred way to use them is in a aubergine and tomato pasta sauce and just one aubergine makes quite a few portions but then someone had aubergine plants also for £1, I just bought one. Finally two courgette plants again for £1 each as I hadn't got around to sowing any. I have got enough cucumber and tomatoes through so won't need to buy those. Someone was selling 3 sweetcorn plants for £1 which I thought was a bit expensive but I'm sure there will be some cheaper later..... for some reason I forgot to get seeds....or peat pots to sow them in......

I'm not sure why my gardening mojo has vanished this year - maybe it's due to the years of having everything ruined by next door's cat, pigeons and slugs.

My 'fill a blog post with weird you tube things' yesterday brought several comments and Steve's comment of "how much peanut butter can a person stockpile" immediately brought to mind a vision of someone having cupboards full of jars of PNB and at the time of dire emergency opening the cupboard and being killed by getting hit on the head and buried under 100's of falling jars!! 

I think this could be a plot for Midsomer Murders!

I think I might have been reading too many crime novels!!

Back Tomorrow.......... unless..................!

Believable?

These were on the side bar when I was looking at Colette's Bealtaine Cottage site.

 Is this what they call Doom Scrolling?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zVYPGeh79Y

I like this one as it says Peanut Butter is the perfect food to store for an emergency - well I can agree with that one!

I said I was short of ideas for blog posts!!

I expect I'll  be better tomorrow 😄