St Mary, Higham
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poliphiloSt Mary's, Higham was Dickens's parish church. One of his daughters was married there. It sits at the end of a road that peters out into the North Kent marshes- so isolated that the villagers built a second church in the 1860s, about a mile away on higher ground. It is now redundant and in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
This is the landscape of Great Expectations. One can imagine Magwitch shivering among the graves.
The south door dates from c.1400 and is studded with quaint little carved faces.
This is the landscape of Great Expectations. One can imagine Magwitch shivering among the graves.
The south door dates from c.1400 and is studded with quaint little carved faces.
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Date: 2015-10-20 11:28 am (UTC)Love those door details, but you know I would! :o)
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Date: 2015-10-20 12:20 pm (UTC)I love the marshes. Can't think why, but I do...
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Date: 2015-10-20 12:30 pm (UTC)I suppose I was brought up with them and Dickens's descriptions of them as th' meshes.
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Date: 2015-10-20 01:43 pm (UTC)I love Romney Marsh too.
Marshes are liminal.
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Date: 2015-10-20 03:43 pm (UTC)The other two are green men
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Date: 2015-10-20 06:46 pm (UTC)With the faces on the door looking at him.
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Date: 2015-10-20 07:12 pm (UTC)I think they're friendly little faces- but maybe they'd have worn a different aspect to a man on the run.