St Giles, Dallington

[poliphilo]

The tower is 14th century, the rest of the church is Victorian. I got into conversation with a local who apologized for his church being so dull- and recommended me to others in the neighbourhood that had more to offer.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

We managed to get into Burham old on our recent walk.

One that the Victorians thankfully ignored and built a new one closer in, which has since had to be demolished (tee hee).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the Victorians had no choice but to rebuild a crumbling church. I don't know what the case was here, but they did a pretty thorough job.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Charles Augustus Welby Pugin has a lot to answer for!

'Ruskin says that a man who will restore a church is an unmitigated sweep!' (Rudyard Kipling)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of Pugin. I think he is responsible for much ugliness.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

That's kind of sad. It looks to be a lovely tower.

Being from the U.S., Victorian Gothic is the only kind of Gothic I saw for many years, and it's comfortingly familiar.

(And being a Lutheran, I'm resigned to many of our newer churches looking more like grain elevators than any species of Gothic.)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The tower is, apparently, rare for Sussex in being built of stone, not wood and tile.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I rather like that sturdy looking tower, though.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a good tower.