ST PETER. 1888 by Habershon & Fawckner. With NW tower and broach spire. Windows in the C13 style. - PLATE. Jacobean Cup.
SHELLEY. With such a name it should be a beauty spot, and so it is. There is an Elizabethan rectory with its ancient timbers, a hall among the trees with a door older than the Armada, and a group of farm buildings with a dovecot. By a large pond is the church with a stone tower, a wooden turret, and a shingled spire, all made new. On the wall on the tower is a sculpture on which kneel a family of Charles Stuart’s day, John Greene and his wife with six children.
As usual I planned a route without pre-consultation and came across Shelley by mistake - the tower must have been locked since I have no record of the Greene monument.
Flickr set.
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