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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #45 on: Saturday 11 October 08 04:17 BST (UK) »
like fmni I obviously have too much time on my hands ;D ;D

You can rule out

Essex
Bedfordshire
Cambridge
E Sussex
Herefordshire
Hertfordshire

Off now to search some more :D

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #46 on: Saturday 11 October 08 10:21 BST (UK) »
Unfortunately we can rule Surrey out too... however there were a lot of architectual similarities between 'our' church and many in that area. Very similar spiral designs - the likes of St. Martin's in Dorking (designer = Henry Woodyer and built in 1874) - the 'darker' brick used is also more in keeping with our church so i am convinced now that the church is/was in england. I've ruled out Hampshire now too - again some similarities...

I've also checked out this site which has a number of churches built in the Victorian times....
http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/churches/

Unfortunately it drew a blank too.... Grr! Righteo, have I done Kent yet?! I can't remember now, when I close my eyes all I can see is churches!
HILL - Ballinderry, Co. Antrim: BANKS - Moira, Co. Down: ARMOUR - Lisburn, Co.Antrim: WALKER - Dromore, Co. Down: MAGEE - Lambeg, Co. Antrim: THOMPSON - Derriaghy/Magheragall, Co. Antrim: TITTERINGTON - Moira, Co. Down: McNEILL - Lisburn, Co. Antrim: SWAIN - Moira, Co. Down: IRVINE - CLONES, Co. Monaghan: TURNBULL - Lurgan, Co. Armagh: CARLISLE - Lisburn, Co. Antrim: MORROW, Lisburn, Co. Antrim: FORSYTHE - Magheralave, Co. Antrim: MARTIN - Ballinderry, Co. Antrim: REILLY, Magheralin, Co. Down

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #47 on: Saturday 11 October 08 10:51 BST (UK) »
We can also rule out Lincolnshire,suffolk and Oxfordshire. I've also 'googled' all kinds of terms relating to Victorian Churches and no luck ???

Perhaps fmni we could organise our search to avoid duplication. You've 'done' Kent.

PM me if you're interested.

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #48 on: Saturday 11 October 08 10:59 BST (UK) »
Here's another site re churches:

http://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #49 on: Saturday 11 October 08 11:52 BST (UK) »
Thanks Michael for that link, it's the one we're currently searching ;D ;D well at least I am.

all contributions, ideas and flashes of genius and sheer brilliance welcome :D :D

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #50 on: Saturday 11 October 08 12:05 BST (UK) »
It's time for bed here in Aus ...so I'm off :D

I've finished Northumberland, Glasgow, nth & sth Lanarkshire & Aberdeen.

Look forward to waking up to the mystery being solved ;) ;)

Cheers

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #51 on: Saturday 11 October 08 13:45 BST (UK) »
I think it could well of been built by someone called Edward Blore who specialized in neo Gothic and Moorish revival  ;)  If you google him and also Poole church, which he designed, there are some striking similarities!
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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #52 on: Saturday 11 October 08 14:54 BST (UK) »
While agree that the church does not look typically English, picture with the church on the horizon looks to me more like an English village than American or European. I find the patch of Water in the forground interesting in the Way it comes right upto the road. I looks almost as if it is deliberate, perhaps to launch boats from? I have seen in Sussex villages a few miles inland from the coast where tidal lagoons come in land a few miles and offer safe sites for small boats. The scene puts me in mind of a village called Bytheburgh but it isn't, the church being totally different. But the view of the water to the left and the road rising to higher ground with the village on, perhaps because the lowground is prone to flooding?

Has anyone noticed that road is quite well made and has pavement and lamposts. Very unusual I would have thought for a rural road. Also the grazing cattle are not contained by a hedge or fence. I wonder if this is 'park land' perhaps leading to the house in the other photographs.

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Re: Do you recognise this church?
« Reply #53 on: Saturday 11 October 08 16:05 BST (UK) »
How about this one of St Johns Stratford, looks similar not rural enough for the church in question.

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