Cowbit. church : st mary

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August Bank Holiday Saturday, and a trip in to Lincolnshire to take in the Crowland Abbey Flower Festival, and then on to Cowbit, just a few miles away. My first trip to Cowbit and first impressions were of how noisy the place was. The village is set at the side of the main road in to Spalding, and the noise of the traffic was intense!

  This was not the easiest church to photograph! To get a decent shot of the tower I had to cross to the other side of the Spalding Road. Due to this, and even with my camera at full magnification, photographs of the gargoyles on the tower are a little distant! Several trees and large bushes surrounding the church also limit the views somewhat!

  Sadly,a tarpauline was still on the church porch after thieves had removed some of the lead a couple of weeks previously. A great shame this, I just cannot get my head around why people would steal from anywhere...but especially a church. For that reason I expected the church to be locked up tightly. However, I was pleasantly surprised to see the church open.

  Quite plain inside, but with some quite decent stained glass. A very long and narrow church this, and remarkably quiet and peaceful inside, despite the close proximity og the road, mentioned earlier.

  Outside, a nice tower with Castelated top and effigy half way up one wall. The rest of the exterior was, to be fair, undistinguished. The tower dominates the local landscape and could be seen long before I reached Cowbit.