St Peters (again!) widwed291117 and CBArchitecture

What with sick leave cover at work and Gill's mum being in hospital blipping is having to take a back seat ... even though it is possibly one of the things keeping me sane!

For wide angle Wednesday, my blip is of St Peter's in the centre of the village (Kineton in Warwickshire).   It fits in with the current community challenge too as it is an example of the many churches in England which came through our turbulent history.  Only the tower remains from the 1315 building, much of the nave and the transepts date from the 1700s, and the Victorians added in some gothic extras in the 1800s.   Despite all of that, it is still a fine building and is much used by the community.  The new stone at the top of the tower is still relatively un-weathered and looks very bright on a sunny afternoon.

During the battle of Edge Hill, the Royalist cavalry charged through the village and sacked the parliamentarian baggage train, rather like an a scene from an episode of Blackadder ... great hats rubbish tactics?  In the interests of fairness, I should say that the parliamentarians were not much better organised, and the battle was something of a stalemate.  

There is also a Catholic church in the village - built in the 1970s - see extra, and a Methodist chapel too.  

Just my dangerous radical opinion ... but I think there is a lot to be said for making history a compulsory subject in our schools , not from a kings, queens and dates perspective,  more from an actions have consequences point of view.  How long did it take us to realise that attending a different church, or no church, does not make someone an enemy of the people?