Astbury

[poliphilo]

On our way back from Mow Cop we stopped at Astbury. The bellringers were at it like a poltergeist among the fire irons. 

The church is really odd- with a tall spire that seems to have come adrift from the main building. There's a collection of  wonderfully grotesque medieval gargoyles, a 1000 year old yew tree and- very unusual- a  set of high-status medieval tombs that have been erected outside, in the churchyard and are now more or less reduced to featureless lumps. 

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think the gargoyle looks like a cross between Humpty Dumpty and the Cheshire cat. It left me wondering whether Lewis Carroll knew it. He was from round these parts so he might have done.