offpeakfang

  The tiny hamlet of Hemley, Suffolk, March 2020. When the UK went into Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020, with only one daily outing allowed for walking/running/cycling exercise, I gave myself a small project to make the most of my limited cycling allowance: a medium-term project to cycle to and take a film photo of every church-with-tower, church-with-spire, and any other architecturally-interesting place of worship shown on the Ordnance Survey map of the local area (OS Explorer 197). It was a very fun combination of my cycling, history and film photography hobbies, and it was an excellent excuse to exercise responsibly during the pandemic and to explore lots of scenic rural Suffolk along the way. Here are the churches I visited, split into the three rolls of film that I used: 2020-03-22/2020-05-16: Roll 1 2020-05-20/2020-06-13: Roll 2 2020-08-07/2020-11-29: Roll 3 After visiting a total of 106 churches, here are some of my observations: It took me the entire year to get round to ...