I visit many churches on my rambles. This week I visited St Mary’s at Long Stratton (Norfolk, England). The stained glass east window was a delight being a ‘modern’ creation (hmm, 1929) incorporating medieval fragments, some very early, from both England and Flanders (and probably places beyond). Yet it was the bootscraper by the south door that really caught my eye.
Bootscraper at the south door of St Mary’s church, Long Stratton: Photo 23rd August 2018
I’ve seen many neglected and forgotten, rusty battered old scrapers set to one side of couuntry church doors. This one was different: I don’t know its age, but it was clean, it was treasured.
#2018picoftheweek challenge: Details
For the tiles, the eroded carved stone, the exposed flint wall, the once flush flush-work, the leached minerals but, most of all, that bootscraper.
And for those interested, the aforesaid east window.
Medieval stained glass assemblage at St Mary’s Long Stratton; Photo 23rd August 2018
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What a nice detail!
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Or one detail amongst many. 🙂
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Yes, many details in that photo!!
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I love that with the “obvious” beauty of the stained glass window, you were more enraptured by the boot scraper and its surroundings. Something I think I would have as well!
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I have taken so many photos of stained glass windows. Though I admit many date to Post-Reformation, many more to this past century, so for one to include rather early stained glass is unusual. But that boot-scraper was even more unusual. And the challenged called for ‘detail’.
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Well, I for one enjoyed your ‘detail’…
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I thank you, Dale. Sometimes I wish I could post all the photos. But that would be overload.
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I know. We need to pull back at times, don’t we? (We definitely includes me!)
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Are you implying to ‘over’ post? I wouldn’t say so. Your posts are always so interesting.
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No, no… I’m not an over-poster… And I won’t lie… I have trouble following those who are… When I open my email and I have SIX posts from one person… I just aaaarrrrggghhh! Pick and choose one or two to read, flush the rest. I can’t keep up. Too many great peeps to follow to read 5-6 from the same one, yanno?
And I thank you! What a nice thing to say! xoxo to you!
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🙂
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When I said pull back, I meant in the sharing of photos…. It was so hard to NOT put 20 more pics of Woodstock…
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A phenomenon shared. Even as I type this reply my fingers are itching to post one of the photos I took today. And so I might.
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And so.. you should!
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And so I did.
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And so I saw!!
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Great detail in the shot of the bootscraper — I see what you mean, that it looks so much more cared for than most. I love the contrast with the damaged stone and the colorful tiles. For me, I would gravitate toward that image over a stained glass window any day. I think I have seen more stained glass windows than my lifetime allotment as it is, and goodness but don’t they all look similar after a while!
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Very much so. Though I did come across one on this same walk that was … different. I’m saving that for now. I’m finding lots of modern glass now with a distinct ‘Picasso’ look to it, as well; always a change from the Pre-Raphelite look no matter how much I might like Burne-Jones
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Hmm, “different” does sound intriguing.
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Oh, don’t get too excited. But I did walk into this little country church and went Wow1 And I have seen loads of the run of the mill jobs
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Great details, I love glass windows, but the scraper is unique. We have one at the end of the garden path, but believe me, that one looks different, LOL. Great challenges, too, where did you find them?
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I discovered the challenges on the blog ‘Of Maria Antonia’: https://ofmariaantonia.wordpress.com. I don’t think she set the original challeanges though. Maria posts book reviews.
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Thank you! She does set the challenge, here: https://ofmariaantonia.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/2018-photography-challenge/ — and what a good idea that is. Maybe I klick around with my phone a bit. I hardly know what I’m doing but sometimes nice pictures appear. This would give me something to post in-between stories from time to time, too.
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This was my thought. Though I was posting pictures before, this gives the posts more focus.
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