Guess the Place

[John Walker]

I like your clue Beachbum  .  I know this one, so it wouldn't be a guess.


I'll hold back.

[Beachbum]

Thanks CAT.      I must check out the Beach at Cranbrook 


Next one: "Think of a Colour"

[MartinR]

Location:

• Nat Grid:                    TQ 77695 36165
• Nearest Post Code:   TN17 3HA
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°05'50"N,000°32'11"E or 51.09726,0.53639

PS - I loved accidental village name "Cranbrook Beachbum"; it ought to rank along with "North Piddle", "Wyre Piddle", "Scratchy Bottom" and of course "Shitterton"

[CAT]

It is indeed St Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook Beachbum. Over to you and again apologies for the delay.

[Beachbum]

St. Dunstan's Church, Cranbrook?

[CAT]

Good evening to you all and apologies for the delay caused by work.


Many thanks John Walker, this is one of those churches i have worked at a couple of time over the last few years and remember it well.


My next is another church, but more towards the western part of the county than Nonnington.

[grandarog]

Cat beat me to it.Done and dusted before i logged on.

[MartinR]

Well done CAT.  Location information:

• Nat Grid:                    TR 25314 52351
• Nearest Post Code:   CT15 4LH
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°13'33"N,001°13'32"E or 51.225856,1.225563

[John Walker]

Hi CAT.  An incredible resemblance 


Over to you .

[CAT]

Looks a lot like St Mary the Virgin's Church, Nonnington?

[John Walker]

East Kent ?

Yes Grandarog, East Kent

[grandarog]

East Kent ?

[John Walker]

Thank you Martin, another really interesting one from you.


Next one ...  on GSV - should be an easy one.

[MartinR]

Yes, you're both right.  The preserved painting is in the cathedral.  There used to be high backed quire stalls from the organ screen right up to the presbytery, cutting off the quire transepts.  When the Victorians removed these old seats they found some of the mediaeval wall painting behind which had been protected from the iconoclasts.  The Rota Fortunae ("Wheel of Life") is preserved in its present fragmentary form.  The bords though showed what the original decoration was and the restorers used this on the newly re-exposed walls.  The original medieval panels were preserved and are displayed in the south quire transept.  When the new station was opened the motif was used for a decoration.  However this caused a bit of a rumpus because it was held to be a religious image and upset someone.  Fortunately the dust has settled and it is a colourful augmentation to the concourse.

See https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rochester_Cathedral_Choir,_Kent,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg
Credit: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Right John, over to you.

[grandarog]

Looks like a similar design mural at Rochester Modern Station.