This window is in the earliest church around here, the teeny-tiny sixth century church at Cockley Cley, around which they've reconstructed the original Saxon village to which it belonged.
It was built on the site of en even earlier church - there were Roman Christian coffins found under it, one of which is on display on the dirt floor. The roof is currently corrugated iron as nobody has the money to thatch it at the moment but stepping inside you get a feeling of what Christianity was like before it discovered money and power and split into a billion bickering factions.
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Real history! Great photo, and now I have to go explore the rest of the place—online, at least.
I thought it was the Norwich Castle to start with..
It's beautiful, Dive. At first, I thought it was a stained glass window,based on fractal art the design of which reflected the stones in the wall. Sort of like this
http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2009/showentry.php?entryid=245
Robyn, I'll probably do some more posts on it if I remember. I have plenty of photos.
Mum, you could fit this entire church inside the tea shop at the Castle.
It's real fractals, Speedway; Mother Nature doing her thing. This was way before the age of stained glass.
The history is fascinating! Looks like stone construction? Flint? Looking forward to more of your photos of this place.
Flint it is, Ms.M. I'm posting more photos.
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