Trip out to Rutland today with Carole; very cold, but it made for an amazing sky.
This is Normanton Church, at risk when the valley was flooded to create Rutland Water in the heart of Leicestershire.
To quote from Carole's photograph of the same subject today; "The church was saved by public outcry in 1970. The valley had to be cleared for a new resevoir & the church was deconsecrated & set for demoloition, but the general public had other ideas! When it came time to flood the area, it became obvious that the church would be partly submerged once the high water level was reached. This would have meant the gradual erosion of its foundations and lower walls.
Finally it was decided that the lower level of the church would be filled with rubble and concrete to form a new floor. This would be approximately 60 cm above the water level. Because the church would have become a small island once flooded, a causeway was built to reach it."
I reckon it was a cellar that was filled with rubble and then capped. It wasn’t the Parrish Church of Normanton, but a private church, St Matthews, for the Earls of Ancaster and the Normanton Hall estate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normanton,_Rutland?wprov=sfti1
I reckon it was a cellar that was filled with rubble and then capped. It wasn’t the Parrish Church of Normanton, but a private church, St Matthews, for the Earls of Ancaster and the Normanton Hall estate.