A Round Trip To Birmingham 1

[poliphilo]

We bought a rabbit hutch on eBay- and had to drive to Birmingham to fetch it- a round trip of about 200 miles. We went down on the motorway (with one brief detour) and came back through Derbyshire- and some of the loveliest landscapes in England. It as a perfect early spring day with the cherries and blackthorns in bloom, the daffodils still out and the leaves just beginning to show on the trees.

We stopped to eat our sandwiches here- outside St. Laurence's, Chapel Chorlton, Staffs.

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[sovay]

We stopped to eat our sandwiches here- outside St. Laurence's, Chapel Chorlton, Staffs.

I particularly like the second of these; something about the angle of the tower against the sky.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

200 miles to buy a rabbit hutch. Wow. That must be some hutch...

The Classical doorway on the church is a bit strange...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a very ordinary hutch- but it was cheap- and we got a nice country drive thrown in.

The church was rebuilt in the classical taste in the 1820s. Parts of the tower are medieval.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

It's a very bizarre juxtaposition of styles! Up here, they'd just have flattened the existing church and built a completely new Classical one in its place.

I much prefer the mixed metaphor approach...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a sweet little church. I love how churches like this have been built up over centuries- with every generation making its contribution.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I think that's what I love about churches and cathedrals, too. And what makes them truly special is the fact that so many of them are doing exactly what they've always done. You get an immediate sense of being part of history, rather than glimpsing something that's passed out of history, if you see what I mean, like a ruined castle, or whatever.

I got a similar sensation at Fort George barracks, too. Built in the Hanoverian period, and still occupied by soldiers. Even though they seemed to be spending their time rescuing seagulls instead of subduing seditious Scots when I went visiting there...