'St Michael's' At Clapton In Gordano, Inside In The Dark, July 2012
Channel: semw52
Date: 2012-07-17

On the 2nd visit I was lucky to find the church open but in darkness---I did not realize how creepy the church was until I watched my own video---here I was in a remote place,wandering about in an isolated medieval church in the dark BUT what a church--beautiful and full of magnificent features-- now almost redundant but much loved. A place steeped in history, of Lords of the manor, of crusaders, well preserved architecture and furniture and a very, very old feeling and atmosphere--I could have been back in time here--it seemed unchanged, unpolluted.Outside just beyond the top of a newish graveyard the sound of the M5 Motorway is clearly audible but not too intrusive---a balance in time---the past and the present exisiting in the same time and space--one day the motorway could grass-over and disappear like a roman road but I reckon this church will always be here poking its tower up into the sky to keep watch.