Bikes and... wait for it, wait for it, Churches!

[GLB]

Still in Dickens Country, St Mary's Higham. 11th - 14th century. Redundant, in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.



And following the Thames upstream, this is Holy Trinity Dartford, another Norman church.

 

[sjcprojects]

And following the Thames upstream, this is Holy Trinity Dartford, another Norman church.

They didn’t put much thought into the placement of that clock, did they? Interestingly large windows, too.

 

[MCsanandreas]

Evening Sun on a little local church

 

[Jingle Jangle]

St Andrew’s Greensted. The oldest wooden church in the world.

 

[MCsanandreas]

Same Sun, different local church. Different bicycle too....

 

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[non-fixie]

St Peter's church in Roelofarendsveen, NL:



The smaller the town, the bigger the church, it seems. This big boy is St Adrian's church - a.k.a. the Rhineland Cathedral - in Langeraar, a town with 2,500 inhabitants:

 

[Corsa of Course]

Well we are creeping towards the Ride N Stride weekend in 2023 I completed 102 miles on my trusty Corsa, little accident saw me in trouble shortly after and I was off games in 2024 having had a new hip but I Will be cycling again this year only a short 50 miles the second Saturday in September. This is in aid of the Friends of Essex Churches Trust. Each county has a historic churches trust and you can ride for any individual Church and split the money 50/50 between your church and the trust. Now I do have a picture of a church and the bike but that will have to come later.

 

[sjcprojects]

St Peter's church in Roelofarendsveen, NL:

That gate is really quite something. I mean, I suppose it should be called a gate, but that doesn’t really do it justice.

 

[non-fixie]

That gate is really quite something. I mean, I suppose it should be called a gate, but that doesn’t really do it justice.

My first thought when seeing it was that Roelofarendsveen was quick to adapt itself to global warming, with that huge A/C unit.