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Once standing on the side of a major course of the River Trent, now on a sand and gravel bank on the edge of the floodplain, St John the Baptist nestles as a focal point of the village, amongst old houses and even older trees.
This book distils the author’s larger investigation of this Church, into some six and a half thousand words with over 60 colour photographs, images of old drawings and postcards. The presence of a Church was recorded in the Doomesday Book, there were and still are 2 Churches in Collingham but the 2 mills recorded in 1068 are long gone. This book ranges from describing and presenting photographs of; the ‘fine Norman Arcades, the many C19th and C20th windows, the effigies including one of a horse style ‘demons head’ swallowing a man, C16th and earlier graffiti, also why the structure could have collapsed at the end of the C19th. And, finally, the WW1 Memorial Window and the origins and the man remembered on the World War I ‘Battlefield Cross’ that is displayed with the War Memorial in the Church. The author also describes many other features and takes you into areas not open to the public.
This book compliments the Author's book on All Saints (North) Collingham. Also of interest may be the author's books on the churches at Girton and Langford.
Once standing on the side of a major course of the River Trent, now on a sand and gravel bank on the edge of the floodplain, St John the Baptist nestles as a focal point of the village, amongst old houses and even older trees.
This book distils the author’s larger investigation of this Church, into some six and a half thousand words with over 60 colour photographs, images of old drawings and postcards. The presence of a Church was recorded in the Doomesday Book, there were and still are 2 Churches in Collingham but the 2 mills recorded in 1068 are long gone. This book ranges from describing and presenting photographs of; the ‘fine Norman Arcades, the many C19th and C20th windows, the effigies including one of a horse style ‘demons head’ swallowing a man, C16th and earlier graffiti, also why the structure could have collapsed at the end of the C19th. And, finally, the WW1 Memorial Window and the origins and the man remembered on the World War I ‘Battlefield Cross’ that is displayed with the War Memorial in the Church. The author also describes many other features and takes you into areas not open to the public.
This book compliments the Author's book on All Saints (North) Collingham. Also of interest may be the author's books on the churches at Girton and Langford.
