Too many photos of Kersey, Suffolk

Sep 04, 2010 20:42

The main focus of my drive out with K was Kersey, a traditional East Anglian Wool Towns Kersey is a very quiet village today, not as big as nearby Lavenham, but not as touristy either.








 The Old Drift House, a self-catering cottage, which my friend K thinks I should hire next year. After all, it does have a baby grand in the living room...  The cottage featured in the long-running BBC drama Lovejoy.







 The pub - not open when I came through.

 The church, St Mary's.


 The charmingly carved lych gate.


 Detail of the carving on the lych gate.


 A lion corbel on St Mary's church. The church is at the top of the hill, so he is a bit weathered.


 A German C16th lecturn.  The base was probably originally on another lecturn.


 A close up of the delicate carving on the lecturn.


 A carved coffer - simple but lovely - one of several in the church.


 A reconstructed pargetted ceiling in the church.


 Another view of the ceiling, with a lovely lion head boss in the middle.


 Some sculpture from the interior of the church.


  A corbel - possibly a reconstruction? In notably better shape than much of the other sculpture.


 A fifteenth century altar frontal depicting Christian Kings. Was it in a glass case? No, it was leaning against a wall in the chapel.


 A closer view of two of the Kings. The chap on the right is probably St Edmund.


 The second pair of Kings.


 The third pair of kings.


 A closeup of one of the kinds. The detail was delicate and lovely.

panel painting, sculpture, medieval wool towns, kersey

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