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After Megaplants, I felt the need for a fix of ecclesiastical architecture. I wanted to take Teresa somewhere like West Walpole, or Walpole St Peter’s. But she didn’t want to travel that far.
So we – or rather I – checked out the church in Doddington, as we were there already. It’s in a lovely setting. As the following photos, I hope, bear witness. But the church itself was locked. Bummer!
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Nonetheless, a quiet and leisurely walk around the church and graveyard was very pleasant. And yielded plenty of lovely pictures.
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I feel obliged to give one particularly handsome monument its own mini-gallery:
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I feel inclined to utilise the stylised leaf design at home, somehow. A cornice or coving stencil pattern, perhaps?
And to finish, the view on returning to the car, and casting one last backward glance.
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Another for the ‘must return and view inside the church’ list.