Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: parish church

You can't enter the castle and judging by the state those walls are in, that's a good call by the authorities!

A bright, sunny but extremely cold day. I'm looking forward to the return of the storks!

It's in the 'new' town of Zarzalejo Estación, about a mile and a half from the ancient village of Zarzalejo up the road. Behind is the hill of La Machota Chica, a great pile of granite boulders. All very near the great palace of EL Escorial which I always include in the same walk (not least beacause it is the nearest bus station from Madrid). 5 minutes earlier, the congregation, followed by the priest who locked up after all had left, filed out at the end of Sunday's midday mass.

My cousin's farm is just below the skyline and various relatives are buried in this churchyard, Zennor, West Penwith

Built in the 1830s and abandoned in the 1950s when the roof fell in. Now a shell but still impressive. Saint Day is situated on a slight granite rise and this church can be seen from miles around. Today there is a modest church across the road for the small number of C of E worshipers adapted from a terraced cottage, and a small chapel for the equally few practicing Methodists. 150 years ago there were many Methodist and/or Wesleyan chapels of different and often fiercely contested denominations (Wikipedia has a 34 page list of these!) serving the extensive mining communities here; nearly everyone belonged to one sect or another (vastly outnumbering the Anglicans). Next to my parents house is a very large (disused) church for the Primitive Methodists; its most recent incarnation was a (very noisy!) workshop for agricultural machinery.

Framed by the ubiquitous brambles and fuchsias.