The Jumble Sale at All Saints Church, Stoke Ash

 This is the second  jumble sale I've been to in this church. The first one was when we had just come out of lockdown in August 2020.....with socially distanced queueing, all masked and sanitized........seems like a different world now things are back to normal - despite the doom mongers who said life would never be normal again.......mine is. Well, as normal as it's likely to get now.

This church isn't one I'll go back to visit for a special post, it's a very typical church for a small Suffolk village close beside the A140, Ipswich to Norwich road. No stained glass and no outstanding things of interest except perhaps the stairs you can see in the 3rd photo by the hymn number board. They would have once led up to the rood loft - long gone..................

A gallery, or platform, atop a rood screen, used for the rood (crucifix) and sometimes for musicians or singers. Most rood lofts and indeed most roods, were destroyed during the Reformation

Glorious blossom on the trees in the churchyard.

I didn't find anything exciting amongst the jumble and just spent £2 on a bag of bird feed fat-balls.

Then back across the A140 to another village church....and another post.

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Sue