St Mary's Church, Brixham
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St Mary's Church, Brixham
Image: © Tom Jolliffe Taken: 25 Sep 2010
The tower does indeed "soar" above the observer. The dominance of the building emphasised the power of the established church in a largely uneducated rural community which devoted itself to bare subsistence, though nowadays in our secular world we tend to overlook this.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.386218
Longitude
-3.519108