It had been a good day. The snow had vanished (for the moment) and Brenda and I went on a trip to Coventry to pick up some Old English Limed Oak kitchen units that I had bought on ebay. We are attempting to smarted up our kitchen even though the units are no longer produced. On the way back we visited St Michael Stretton-en-le-Field, Leicestershire and were amazed to find it had an Old English Limed Oak interior. Not only that but the colour of the stone seemed to match the furnishings to such an extent that they blended in to one another.
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Even in the blue light of an over cast winter day the effect was magical and I could have stayed there for hours. The exposures were very long and I remembered to turn off the image stabilisation on my Sony A100.
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Although there had been little obvious Victorian restoration, the floor tiles in the chancel did jar with the generally tranquil mood.
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I am always attracted to groups of chairs as they seem to convey a message that the people who had been sat there were "waiting for God" and their time had just come. The impression here was reinforced by the memorials on the wall.
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This church had the oddest set of windows on the south side that I have seen. Arched frames with no tracery, just a single mullion down the middle and square perpendicular windows inserted randomly above them. Another oddity was that the chancel arch was a fake. It was fabricated of wood and stucco and the guide book suggested that the original arch had collapsed and after the roof had been patched up a, cheaper, false arch was erected.
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In the churchyard I saw an isolated group of three graves for the same family, and a Goldilocks connection came in to my mind.
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