There are thousands of churches in Britain, there are hundreds of disused churches, there are only a handful of timber-framed medieval churches.
This particular example is Grade I listed and features a whole host of different styles around the frame - wattle & daub, dressed sandstone, handmade bricks, machine-made bricks. It was going to be demolished when it's replacement was built nearby in the late 1800s but somehow it survived and services were even held in it occasionally. When I was a nipper I'm fairly sure the services were regular though infrequent. Nowadays there are occasional services in the summer.
Like many old churches that fell out of use it was being plundered for useful contents (though some of the removal was to the new church initially). More than half of the pews were removed but luckily the pulpit and some of the screens survived.
This particular example is Grade I listed and features a whole host of different styles around the frame - wattle & daub, dressed sandstone, handmade bricks, machine-made bricks. It was going to be demolished when it's replacement was built nearby in the late 1800s but somehow it survived and services were even held in it occasionally. When I was a nipper I'm fairly sure the services were regular though infrequent. Nowadays there are occasional services in the summer.
Like many old churches that fell out of use it was being plundered for useful contents (though some of the removal was to the new church initially). More than half of the pews were removed but luckily the pulpit and some of the screens survived.
