Depden - lost in arcadia, lost in time

Jun 07, 2014 17:15


Thursday I visited Depden village, further along the road to Haverhill from Bury (A145), past Chedburgh. There is a nice little farm shop there: //www.depden.com. It has a food shop with gourmet treats, a cafe, and a garden (which we weren't able to view.) We went there to meet the Depden Knitting Group, who made us most welcome. Knitting and ( Read more... )

the lady of shallott, st mary's depden, medieval church, walking, suffolk, tennyson

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splodgenoodles June 8 2014, 03:01:36 UTC
I clicked, it was beautiful. I can see what the writer has said: that the process of renewal would give it a real sense of ...something else.

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quatrefoil June 9 2014, 10:20:24 UTC
Lovely. The ditch and mound construction may well predate the church, and quite possibly its predecessor(s). It was common practice for early medieval Christian churches to be built on the pre-Christian sacred sites and there are some spectacular examples of churches in the middles of stone circles. So my guess is that the ditch and mound are the remains of a henge (i.e. the ditch) and that the church represents a colonisation of an existing sacred place for the new religion. It would be interesting to know more about the surrounding geography. I think you said it was near a river, which might lend some weight to my theory.

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