Tuesday, 19 November 2024

St. Peter's Church, Monks Eleigh

The other church visit from the weekend before last, the church was full of poppies on the Saturday before Remembrance Sunday. 

A walk up to the church through old trees



Quite unusual is the stair turret going up the outside right to the battlements




Some lights came on  automatically as I opened the door but it was a gloomy day, so they didn't have much effect.

Looking down the nave to the chancel, the church is wide with aisles both north and south 




Typical Victorian stained glass 



Some of the poppies for Remembrance Sunday behind the altar


Coat of Arms for Queen Anne above the chancel arch


More poppies over the font and it's cover


This bier for carrying the coffin in the past, not common in churches now but there are several remaining



And even more poppies at the base of the tower



Back Soon
Sue





4 comments:

  1. You certainly have a lot of these small parish churches to visit, yet another interesting one today. To be honest, I find the small avenue of trees rather spooky, great photo but spooky! Thanks for sharing.
    Is it snowing with you? None here, at least I don't think so, it's still dark outside and I haven't looked.

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    1. 700 churches in Suffolk! I won't be visiting all of them!
      We have pouring rain and dark skies - horrible

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  2. I love the curtains of poppies. The black netting really shows them off. So simple, yet really effective.

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    1. Many churches seem to do the poppies like this now - it's very effective

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