dhsimmonds
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An example of the Oly Pro 7-14 lens at the wide end. This is my local country church which held it's millennium in 1985! The effigy and tomb commemorates the Knight of the realm who was the chief verderer for the vast New Forest area, which was then a Royal hunting forest way back before King John. My back was against the outer walls of the Chancel walls behind the altar to ensure that I could get everything in shot.
This church has only one of two all wooden bell towers in England,the other being in Middlesex. The village was too poor to fund a stone tower so when the Archbishop of that time decreed that all country churches must have a bell tower to call agricultural workers to church on Sundays! As the village was then in the New Forest there was a ready supply of timber and despite the ravages of beetles and time recent surveys have determined that the church is good for another thousand years! The scene of much history including the adjacent field where local English bowmen were given their pep talk before the Battle of Agincourt and more recently during the second world war where the very same field was used for the very same reason, this time including locally billeted American and Canadian soldiers just before the invasion of France. A strange thing history! The threshold stone slab to the doorway of the bell tower was taken from the previous pagan building used for exactly the same purpose! Some folks with a wry sense of humour must have permitted that! It has been known for centuries too.
This church has only one of two all wooden bell towers in England,the other being in Middlesex. The village was too poor to fund a stone tower so when the Archbishop of that time decreed that all country churches must have a bell tower to call agricultural workers to church on Sundays! As the village was then in the New Forest there was a ready supply of timber and despite the ravages of beetles and time recent surveys have determined that the church is good for another thousand years! The scene of much history including the adjacent field where local English bowmen were given their pep talk before the Battle of Agincourt and more recently during the second world war where the very same field was used for the very same reason, this time including locally billeted American and Canadian soldiers just before the invasion of France. A strange thing history! The threshold stone slab to the doorway of the bell tower was taken from the previous pagan building used for exactly the same purpose! Some folks with a wry sense of humour must have permitted that! It has been known for centuries too.
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