BrackenOE

By BrackenOE

Looking very angelic ...

in the Georgian Church of King Charles the Martyr, Shelland a little village in Suffolk.  The church was built during the Commonwealth by Thomas Cropley for private family use and dedicated to King Charles the Martyr; one of only five churches in the country with this dedication. This didn’t go down well with Parliament and Thomas was imprisoned and his land confiscated. He died in 1659, never witnessing the Restoration of the Monarchy. His body was interred in the nave. The church still holds a patronal service on 30th January every year to remember the beheading of Charles I.
At the back of the church is the C11th font, the only survivor from the pre-Reformation church with its Georgian wood lid crowned with a pineapple, a sign of wealth and status.

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