Little. Wenham Church

Church is used only once a year. These photographs were taken using Bronica etrsi Medium format camera, using Kodak Portra 160VC 120 Film.

Gt. Wenham Church

Taken using Bronica etrsi Medium Format Camera using Kodak Portra 160VC 120 Film.

Room

These images depict a brief glimpse of the room I stayed in for a couple of nights in mid-August 2010 in Little Wenham staying with the Langtons. I got attracted by the morning light and how it fell on the furniture in the room. I also continue to be fascinated by the idea of the trace of something in this instance the slept in bed and the removal of the self from this image. These photographs were taken using a Bronica etrsi Medium format camera, using Kodak Portra 160VC 120 Film.

Other Texts...

American WWII Airfield location

Old Maps

Countrylife Magazine article about Little Wenham Hall (2000)

Texts about Little Wenham Hall and Little Wenham Church

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* (Rubbings I made of the Brass relief situated on the floor of the church; 'The brass of Thomas [d.1514] and Jane Brewse')

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Questionnaire

A short interview/questionnaire to Mrs Langton a local to the area (and someone who I have been corresponding with and stayed with mid August), just enquiring into the name of Wenham and the local area itself. I wrote the initial questions using a typewriter and receiving a handwritten response seems much more personal.

Polaroids of Little Wenham

Quick line sketches of a cow in a field.

The Little / Great Wenham mapped area sketched from memory. I find the idea of relying more on my memory of the place more intriguing then the actual documentation of the place, well in a way it is more my way of determining what I have taken away from the place, my own way of mapping the area. This could be an area I work with or return to.

Already can see a few inaccuracies with this map, you can get to Little Wenham church through the road the pub is on not as depicted in this drawing.

Little Wenham Church (I visited Suffolk 17-19th August)

These are my own photographs but more information about the history of the church can be found at this website;
www.suffolkchurches.co.uk and www.visitchurches.org.uk;

"All Saints, Little Wenham

Approached along a winding track from the Queen’s Head, the church stands on a knoll by a farmyard. Apart from the later tower with a Tudor brick top and 15th century porch, the unspoilt fabric of flint walls and tiled roofs is 13th century. Important wall paintings with figures and arcading from about 1310 are on the east wall inside, as well as an image of St Christopher opposite the south door. There is a series of Brewse memorials and good woodwork from various periods. A fascinating church in a romantic setting."

I was accompanied to this church by Mrs. Langton who has been kind enough to be my guide to the area that day and was able to get the key to the church, there had apparently been a few other Wenhams visiting the previous day who had also wanted to see inside the church.