Gosh, that's quite a strange-looking building. There is something about the shape of the roofs on the two spires which makes it look unreal - almost like a wooden-block church in a child's toy village or something. Any ideas about its architectural history?
Well, it's a romanesque building, but those twin west towers (which I love) are certainly unusual. My guide book says they're typical of the Rhineland. How they came to be here- on the edge of Sherwood forest- is anybody's guess.
Ah, no wonder I thought it looked like a toy church, then. It evokes the land of the gingerbread / picture-postcard / little model village extraordinaire. How curious.
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