We set off on our journey to Ely a little later than we had intended which, as well as the travel taking longer than expected, led us to change our plans and not pay a short visit visit to Cambridge. Instead we broke our journey for lunch in Market Harborough. Being a Sunday the nice [...]
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10 Comments CherryPie on Dec 21st 2017
Filed under Cambridge 2017, Faith Foundations, Holidays
St. Dionysius
The parish church of St Dionysius, begun around 1300 as a chapelry of Great Bowden, was planned to be very much part of the townscape, with a central position in its own square, opening out directly onto the street with no space for a churchyard. It was intended to be sight worthy of its setting, [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Dec 15th 2017
The timber portion of this building was erected in 1614 by Robert Smyth. It was set upon posts “to keepe the market people drye in tyme of foule wether”. The brick portion was added in 1868 and the building was restored by public subscription in 1978.*
*from a signboard next to the building
20 Comments CherryPie on Dec 9th 2017
