Welcome to Genuki, Lincolnshire, Theddlethorpe Just CLOSE this window when you are finished From: Renee Redshaw in Australia ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jenny Birmingham Theddlethorpe All Saints Forlorn setting, ancient screens. Self-styled 'cathedral of the Marsh' Theddlethorpe is for people to whom decayed redundancy appeals. The church stands inland from the coast road and the building is soft and spongy greenstone, patched with brick and concrete in so many places that the green looks more organic than structural. The east wall of the south side is composed of every material imaginable! All Saints however is a dignified early Perpendicular church of c.1380. The interior stonework round the clerestory is like the exterior - a patchwork surface like a chequerboard. The nave is tall and the white plaster ancient. Fragments of a stone reredos survive in the south isle with the screen to the chancel having slender tracery. The two screens to the side chapel are dated 1535 with classical rather than Gothic motifs including faces in profile along the frieze. Georgian memorials adorn the chancel including one with two busts on a black sarcophagus. Although out of place in this setting they are engaging to the eye. At the time of the author's visit he states that there were as many birds inside as outside! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Created: 14-August-2012 ***