The church of Rushton Spencer is a church-within-a-church. The eighteenth-century sandstone exterior that you see encloses an older, fourteenth-century timber church.
No one is clear as to why the parishioners of 300 years ago wanted to preserve the old building inside the new building. Perhaps they were just familiar with it, and respected its age...
Very unusual indeed.
ReplyDeleteGood enough reason as any
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