Sorry, my finger has just slipped twice and I've accidentally sent half a message. Maybe the moderator can remove them for me?
To start again, many thanks to all who have replied to me about this church.
As there has been no identification so far, and several questions about its nationality, I'll give some more information.
Over 20 years ago I bought an old photograph album from a junk shop in East Sussex (about 10 miles from Eastbourne, interestingly). It contains about 18 photos all very firmly glued in. There is no writing in it at all, and absolutely nothing to indicate where it is or who it belonged to, and I promise you I have looked very hard! The first 16 photos are of a country house - external and internal, and including shots like the maid feeding the chickens, some sort of servant in the back yard with 2 dogs, a gardener sweeping a garden path and a horse and carriage with a liveried driver waiting at the front door. I have always longed to discover where it is, and thought the church might be the best clue.
To answer the questions, no I can't say for certain if it's the same church in both pictures, but I had assumed it was. And I had also assumed (perhaps wrongly?) that it was the church local to the country house. I don't really know. There is no indication of date either, but maybe something can be deduced from the clothes worn by the maid, or maybe the carriage can be dated? The house really looks English and since there are a number of you kind enough to be interested I'll post some more pictures on that Flikr site at the weekend. I'll write again when I have done it.
It is very strange that several people think the church looks or feels Eastern European, because I posted it on one other site and the one reply I got said he thought it looked Russian! I wonder if the snow is misleading?
Barbara - thanks for that link. I will start looking, but I've tried ploughing through other sites before and it's just so time-consuming...
Regards
Ebba
