Advent Sunday

at St Mary Magdalene, Croome d'Abitot. 

The 10k Croome Capability Canter, beautifully organised by the Worcester Black Pear Joggers, ends at this beautiful Church. The quiet beauty of the place is deeply moving. The West door points straight at the Malvern Hills. I wonder if my forbears, rectors at Little Comberton from 1826 to 1941, ever preached here. Exterior by Capability Brown, interior by Robert Adam.

Nearby the RAF Defford Museum celebrates another dimension of British strength: the intellectual power and electronic ingenuity which brought airborne radar into play in the 1940s.