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« on: June 28, 2012, 11:46:04 AM »
I recently played a gig in Boston, Lincolnshire. It's an interesting place - well, I find the whole of East Anglia / Fenland to be interesting and haunting. Anyway I took a few pics while I was there. The church tower is Boston Stump. It's visible from miles away across the flat landscape and always puts me in mind of the Haunter of the Dark....

 



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« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2012, 02:57:26 PM »
English Gothic, that `s exactly what I pictured when reading Haunter (no matter the text describes something different)! But something more like Manchester Cathedral.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Cathedral
That thing looks HUGE by the way! Do you happen to know how high that is? Judging from the houses around at least 60m. Or did you some funny photo shopping?
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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2012, 05:42:09 AM »
The tower is 272 feet (83metres) high so it really does dominate the surrounding countryside. For anyone who has not visited that region it's worth doing so. Even in the modern day it has a certain remoteness to it and some of the villages have a unique atmosphere....

Oh and of course you are not far from Dunwich either!
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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2012, 07:47:38 AM »
I always wanted to travel to the Fenlands, always struck me as an eerie place.
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2012, 08:36:55 AM »
Quote from: Rob on June 29, 2012, 05:42:09 AM
The tower is 272 feet (83metres) high so it really does dominate the surrounding countryside. For anyone who has not visited that region it's worth doing so. Even in the modern day it has a certain remoteness to it and some of the villages have a unique atmosphere....

Oh and of course you are not far from Dunwich either!




It's just about gone.  I was there in 2008 and the places was almost rolled up.  I think Time Team did an episode on it this past year!
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2012, 04:22:00 AM »
Isn't it characteristic of New England that they have enormous over-sized church steeples surrounded by squat hamlets? I've never been.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2012, 05:15:27 PM »
Maybe I am confused now, but this is Boston, Old England. But you `re right anyway. You `ll find disproportional churches all over Europe in the countryside. Over the centuries the importance of a town changes of course, also in a religious sense. If they had for example some big relic, that attracted solvent pilgrims they `d build a mighty church around it. This thing however I found huge even even for the typical oversize steeple.
272 feet and it `s only a stump. Either that relic was something really great or those guys had some rather peculiar personal anxieties...
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