Our photograph this week is of the nave roof of Chipping Norton Church, taken with an ultra-wide angle (fisheye) lens.
There’s apparently been a church here since before 1066 and the current church dates from the 12th century. Like many churches in East Anglia and the West Country it was built on the proceeds of wool. The current structure is though to have been built by the same “architect” who built Eton College chapel. But of course it has been much altered over the years and completely wrecked by the Victorians. That bright, light, open clerestory is quite something though.
Church Roof
Chipping Norton, September 2011
Chipping Norton is definitely on the list of places to go back to this year. Noreen has ancestors, from Chipping Norton, indeed they were stonemasons who probably worked on the church and her ggg-grandfather (as I recall) is buried outside the church door. I too have have now found I have ancestors from only a handful of miles away.