St Giles, Dallington
May. 6th, 2016 09:58 amThe 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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Date: 2016-05-06 10:26 am (UTC)One that the Victorians thankfully ignored and built a new one closer in, which has since had to be demolished (tee hee).
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Date: 2016-05-06 12:40 pm (UTC)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.)
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Date: 2016-05-06 03:55 pm (UTC)'Ruskin says that a man who will restore a church is an unmitigated sweep!' (Rudyard Kipling)
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