Longham St. Andrew & St. Peter's church

Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 27 Apr 2010

The church, tower and porch are 15th c. but the roofs have been replaced, a single hammerbeam in the nave (with shields on the end of the hammers) and arch-braced in the chancel. The octagonal font is plain with a panelled shaft. The screen is square-headed with tracery only in the upper half above the panels, which have lost their overlays, still retain some of their original colour, despite looking as if they have been scrubbed. The piscina and sedilia have been totally eradicated or perhaps they were never installed, but that is unlikely. A Victorian pulpit, reading desk, altar rails and reredos etc. But there is a nice Stuart holy table. The graveyard has been desecrated, headstones uprooted and laid on the ground. If past PCCs commit acts of disrespect like this; how can they demand respect from others?

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