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St Mary, Newport

Click on the 'play' symbol in the second image to see all my photographs of this church as a slide show, then click on any image in the slideshow to see it large in a new page. Alternatively, if you don't have flash enabled, you can go straight to the set for this church on flickr. I was here in May, but then the chancel was covered in scaffolding and the church was locked up. Now, it was open for business again. It is a wide, open, urban interior, pretty much devoid of atmosphere or thrill, but with some good details, including medieval glass and the surprise of a medieval portable altar with painted reredos figures crudely reminiscent of the Thornham Parva screen. The church is by no means as great as the sum of its parts, but I was glad it was open. Simon Knott, February 2014

 

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