St. James, East Lambrook, Somerset
Introduction
The photograph on this page of St. James, East Lambrook, Somerset by nick macneill as part of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over 14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
St. James, East Lambrook, Somerset
Image: © nick macneill Taken: 30 Mar 2009
The church is very simple indeed with few adornments. The blue altar frontal is unusual as it is not one of the main seasonal church colours, but here, as in other small country churches it is still used instead of the purple of Advent and Lent. Although blue is sometimes seen as the penitential colour for the old Sarum Rite, it's more likely that it was a ploy of a vestment maker to sell yet another seasonal colour to churches.... See http://cantuar.blogspot.com/2005/12/liturgical-colors-in-sarum-rite.html for more details.
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
50.964726
Longitude
-2.810351