Four Kentish Churches

[poliphilo]

All Saints, Brenchley



St. Lawrence, Mereworth- a rare example of a English village church in the baroque style



Plaxtol parish church- built in 1649 under the Commonwealth



St. Michael, East Peckham

Comments

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

They're all interesting buildings, but the light in that last shot is beautiful.

[oakmouse]

Second this!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's down to being in the right place at the right time. That light lasted for seconds. The shots taken on either side of that one missed out on it.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

There is often an element of luck in photography because the one thing you can't control (unless you're indoors in a studio!) is the light. But you took the opportunity while it was there.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like working with bad light. It's a challenge to see what you can do with a subject in spite of it.

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

I love these posts.

The depth of real history that it is, more or less, at your fingertips takes my breath away.

Quite obviously not you, but I must wonder how many of your countrymen take this for granted.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Historic churches are taken very much for granted, I think.

[kinderheldin.livejournal.com]

The first and the last pictures here are enchanting (hauntingly). I find it so interesting that graves are in churchyards (just in a general way). Once I saw a playground (swing-set and slide) in a churchyard with gravestones. The idea of life and death, monuments for both, side by side -- there's something poetic in the idea -- and that comes across in your pictures (esp. the slants of sunlight and shadows).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've always loved old churchyards.

[sovay]

Thank you. I love the gravestones in the first and the light in the second.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Gravestones are always good- and winter light is full of surprises.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Ditto to several on the light on St. Michael.

We have many churchyards with cemeteries here in Philadelphia -- not all of them have been dug up and moved.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a horrible act of vandalism to dig up a graveyard.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I love the sky in the last one.
I wonder if there are any identical churches in this country.
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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Identical? I doubt it. Every old church has its unique points of interest

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

I especially like the look of All Saints but then I'm partial to that sort of tower.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

O yes, me too! I like my towers massive and defensible.

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.