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All Saints Church at South Elmham was about 10 miles away from Aldeburgh but took me over one and a half hours to find as it was so tucked away, that even people who lived in the village did not know it was there.
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My initial impression of the interior was rather negative, probably influenced by frustrations finding it, but I warmed to the place with the help of this little medieval dog at the end of a pew.
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I don't know if the master mason got his calculations wrong but he needed to pop in a small arch to make ends meet.
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Another unusual feature was that this church had en-suite in both chancel and side chapel.
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I was on my way to stay with Barbara in Louth and made the very sensible decision to call in at Walpoles St Andrew and St Peter. There could not be a greater contrast between these two magnificent fen-land churches.
Walpole St Andrew is redundant and falling to bits due to an incurable damp problem. It is very attractive in its moulderings however.
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Walpole St Peter (about two miles away) is magnificent - perhaps a bit too magnificent in some ways. It has very little Victorian glass in its acres of perpendicular windows and the space is filled with light. I was rushing and so need to return in a calmer frame of mind.
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/walpolestpeter/walpolestpeter.htm
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The next day we visited Gunby Hall gardens and I had a chance to try out my newly acquired macro lens.
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