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| Norman doorway at Hales |
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| Gayton, with snow |
Suffolk Churches and Norfolk Churches -- Simon Knott's lively descriptions of his visits to more than 1000 East Anglian churches, with interior as well as exterior photographs. He has even provided special indexes to his descriptions of round tower churches in Suffolk and Norfolk.
Wodewose -- Aidan Semmens' informative website "celebrating the medieval image in East Anglia"
Cambridgeshire Churches -- Ben Colburn's detailed notes and Mark Ynys-Mon's photographs of parish churches in Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely
Essex is well-served with two sites of high-quality photographs:
Essex churches -- Ian Rose's interesting collection displays one photograph of each of many old Essex parish churches. A link to buy patterns to sew the pictures in cross-stitch is available at the bottom of the main page.
John Whitworth's Essex Church Photographs has several photographs of each church, but he is only about half way through the county! He also offers a Tom Tom Point of Interest file of the GPS coordinates of Essex churches "of merit".
There is also a Round Tower Churches group of photographs on Flickr.
The Ecclesiological Society -- a large and impressive website which describes itself as "the site for those who love churches"
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| Saxon blind arcading on Tasburgh tower |
ChurchCrawler--"a site for ecclesiatical architecture enthusiasts" by Phil Draper who also moderates the ChurchCrawling and ChurchPictures mailing lists which have international membership and which are free to join. The main website has an excellent collection of church-related links.
The Churches Conservation Trust has seven round tower churches among the more than 300 churches in its care. The website's "Featured Churches" section include Hales.
Saxon Churches in Britain: An Introduction is on the Brittania tourist site which has brief articles by various experts.
The 124-year-old Norwich Diocesan Association of Ringers has a round towers page
RTCS member Leo Reynolds has made the Norfolk Churches Directory to simplify the location of information on individual Norfolk churches in various reference books.
National Churchwatch helps to reduce crime against Places of Worship in the UK.
St Erkenwald's, Southend, was very different from a round tower church, but sadly it is now demolished. Its memory is being kept alive by this website.
The erudite John Vigar’s Kent Churches site particularly features the interiors of churches.
There is also the Friends of Kent Churches website.
Seething church has a page on the Seething village website.
Drawing by Richard Nevins of Southease, Sussex on his Richard's Church Sketches website.
Bylaugh church has a page on the Reeve's Tale website covering Bawdeswell, Foxley and Bylaugh
Keswick and Intwood churches are featured on the Swardeston Group of Parishes site.
Woodton Church has a picture on the Woodton.Info website.
Bramfield village website features St Andrew's church with its detached round tower.
NEW West Dereham church has its own website, and also features on the website of the local West Dereham Heritage Group. Both the church and the group are RTCS members!
Please email details of additional interesting sites
The Round Tower Churches Society is grateful to the following copyright holders for permission to use their illustrations:
Most photographs were taken by 'Lyn Stilgoe and Richard Barham of the RTCS.
Lamarsh and Bardfield Saling -- Ian Rose of Essex churches
Rickinghall Inferior -- Helen Sushames of Australia.
Ramsholt -- Simon Knott of Simon's Suffolk Churches
The Secretary -- Mrs 'Lyn Stilgoe, Crabbe Hall, Burnham Market, King's Lynn, PE31 8EN
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