St Mary's Church, Badwell Ash

 Happy Thanksgiving to all US readers celebrating - hope you have a good day.  

This is the sign that I like to see when hoping to visit a church.

This village church sits by the road right in the centre of the village.

The first thing I noticed were these cards for sale, standing on a lovely carved chest

View down the nave is very like many other small churches, there is a south aisle

Another church that still has its bier used to carry the coffin from the church to the churchyard.

(There was a funeral over the road from my bungalow last week and the coffin was carried down the hill from the church to the burial ground gate in a tractor trailer. The man who had died was a very elderly man, once a village farmer and his grandsons still have old tractors)

The font dates from the C14

Beautiful decoration on the organ pipes

It's always interesting to see these old notices, to remind parishioners of their duty to the poor

The choir pews in the chancel have angels at each end

The Victorian stained glass east window over the altar

At each side of the altar are the commandments

The window over the small altar in the south aisle

The altar in the south aisle on the Saturday after Remembrance Sunday

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Sue