Saint Wilfrid's Church, Metheringham

I often walk past the lane leading down to this Anglican church when I visit my parents, and today I decided to walk down and photograph it, still not having a Blip when I was heading home. 

There's been a church on the site since Saxon times, 600-700AD which would have been made of wood. The Normans rebuilt in stone around 1100AD, and part of the Norman stone tower still remains.

The Tower has round leaded Norman windows.  Major rebuilding work took place after a fire in 1959, when Tuscan columns were erected inside the church.  The arches are Medieval (13th Century) and were discoloured by the fire.  The middle portion of the tower is dated 1601 and was erected after the fire.  There is a fine example of an Elizabethan door, with ER embossed on it, in the south wall.


So really it's a bit of a hodge-podge of different  generations of work. 


I've not been inside, but my Dad says it's a huge church for a small village - even smaller when the church was built. The surrounding villages have their own churches so it's not because it was intended to serve them also!


Hopefully we will put the decorations up tonight at last. Brian is going to have to take Zeph back to work. He's gone down with a bug and doesn't feel up to taking the bus!