For such a wide person in girth, I seem to have a fascination with little narrow doors in very old churches. Were the congregations made up of hobbits and dwarfs or were they really that much smaller 600 years ago.
Here is another church doorway in a country village and they must have expected people to arrive straight off the fields or the farms. No muck allowed in here as they have this lovely cast iron boot scraper outside the door and you had to get rid of the dirt first. I'm sure it didn't get rid of the farm smell though. The posh, lords and and ladies entered via main door and had their own named benches in the church. Better viewed with the dark surround.
Thank you all for your comments and FAV's for my Goldfinch yesterday, for those who wanted to know what went on behind my closed blinds, I'm not saying on the grounds it might shock you. (Wink)
They weren't fed as well in those days Heather so very small men! You only have to go back fifty years & remember how small women were with 24inch waists. I think a size ten now would have been a fourteen then!
Love the textures in this Fav I think people were much smaller even 50 years ago as junk food wasn't around and people ate more healthily. They didn't eat meat every day but ate a lot more fruit and vegetables
They were3 definitely smaller 600 years ago. I think another reason for making the doorways narrow though is so that you can't all rush for the door to escape when the collection plate comes around.
wow! Love this Heather, so much textures and tones. Thanks for explaining that boot scraper, doubt I have ever really seen one.
Yes, I too have a fascination for these narrow doorways for dwarfs and hobbits. Must have been the fashion 600 years ago
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Yes, I too have a fascination for these narrow doorways for dwarfs and hobbits. Must have been the fashion 600 years ago
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