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ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH
St John the Evangelist Church的点评
点评：Tuesday 16th June 2026, My husband and I decided to have a car free day. My husband and I started off by visiting the Church of St John The Evangelist just across the road from the Bedingfeld Arms. The 14th Century church stands in the centre of the village. Originally a very large church built in the Perpendicular style, it boasted a bell tower topped by a stone spire which was the tallest in Norfolk.
In the 19th Century the spire was hit by lightening and was rebuilt only for disaster to strike seventy years later. On a fine April morning in 1948, with children playing in the playground of the school across the green (where Flint House and The Old School House stand today), the spire collapsed bringing down the tower, the nave roof and the South aisle. A pall of dust covered the village but miraculously, no-one was hurt.
After eight years, the church was reopened in its present form. The North aisle is roofed, while the nave and South aisle are grassed and open to the elements. The chancel now forms our Parish church, and there is a separate entrance to the Bedingfeld Chapel which houses the famous terracotta tombs and various monuments and memorials to the Bedingfeld family. A recently renovated model stands in the chapel showing how the church would have looked before 1948.
Disaster of a different sort struck in November 2016, when thieves stole the lead roof over the Bedingfeld Chapel. Despite temporary roofing, it proved impossible to keep the weather out of the ancient roof structure and sadly the terracotta tombs and monuments were damaged by the rainwater ingress. After years of fundraising and many grant applications the roof was replaced in 2019 and is now protected by CCTV and a alarm system. The interior of the chapel has now dried out. Fundraising continues to preserve the tombs.
My husband and I took lots of photographs of this very interesting church with its terracotta tombs. I even found inspiration here and I wrote a poem called ‘Transient Souls’.
In the 19th Century the spire was hit by lightening and was rebuilt only for disaster to strike seventy years later. On a fine April morning in 1948, with children playing in the playground of the school across the green (where Flint House and The Old School House stand today), the spire collapsed bringing down the tower, the nave roof and the South aisle. A pall of dust covered the village but miraculously, no-one was hurt.
After eight years, the church was reopened in its present form. The North aisle is roofed, while the nave and South aisle are grassed and open to the elements. The chancel now forms our Parish church, and there is a separate entrance to the Bedingfeld Chapel which houses the famous terracotta tombs and various monuments and memorials to the Bedingfeld family. A recently renovated model stands in the chapel showing how the church would have looked before 1948.
Disaster of a different sort struck in November 2016, when thieves stole the lead roof over the Bedingfeld Chapel. Despite temporary roofing, it proved impossible to keep the weather out of the ancient roof structure and sadly the terracotta tombs and monuments were damaged by the rainwater ingress. After years of fundraising and many grant applications the roof was replaced in 2019 and is now protected by CCTV and a alarm system. The interior of the chapel has now dried out. Fundraising continues to preserve the tombs.
My husband and I took lots of photographs of this very interesting church with its terracotta tombs. I even found inspiration here and I wrote a poem called ‘Transient Souls’.
翻译：2026年6月16日，星期二，我和丈夫决定度过一个无车日。我们首先前往位于贝丁菲尔德阿姆斯酒店对面的一一圣约翰福音教堂。这座建于14世纪的教堂坐落在村子的中心地带。最初它是一座采用垂直风格建造的巨型教堂，其钟楼顶端的石制尖塔曾是诺福克郡最高的建筑。19世纪时，教堂的尖顶遭雷击损坏，虽经重建，但七十年后又遭遇灾难。1948年4月的一个晴日，当时孩子们正在绿地对面的操场上玩耍（如今那里矗立着弗林特屋与旧校舍），尖顶突然坍塌，导致整个塔楼、中殿屋顶以及南侧走道随之垮塌。一片尘埃笼罩了整个村庄，但奇迹般地，无人受伤。
八年之后，这座教堂以现在的模样重新对外开放。北侧的侧廊有屋顶遮蔽，而中殿和南侧侧廊则铺满草皮，直接暴露于自然环境中。如今，圣坛区已作为我们的教区教堂使用；贝丁菲尔德小教堂则设有独立的入口，里面陈列着著名的赤陶墓碑以及众多纪念贝丁菲尔德家族的纪念碑和纪念物。小教堂内还设有一座近期修复的模型，展示了1948年之前的教堂原貌。
2016年11月，另一场灾难发生了。曾有窃贼偷走了贝丁菲尔德小教堂的铅制屋顶。虽然后来临时安装了屋顶以作应急，但仍无法完全阻挡风雨侵入这座古老的屋顶结构。遗憾的是，雨水渗透致使里面的陶土墓碑与纪念碑遭到了损坏。经过多年筹款及多次申请资助后，该屋顶终于在2019年得以更换，如今还配备了闭路电视监控系统与报警装置加以保护。目前小教堂内部也已完全干燥。目前，保护这些墓碑的工作仍在继续筹集资金中。我和丈夫拍摄了许多这张非常有趣的教堂的照片，那里还有赤陶材质的墓穴。我甚至从这里获得了灵感，写了一首名为《转瞬即逝的灵魂》的诗。
八年之后，这座教堂以现在的模样重新对外开放。北侧的侧廊有屋顶遮蔽，而中殿和南侧侧廊则铺满草皮，直接暴露于自然环境中。如今，圣坛区已作为我们的教区教堂使用；贝丁菲尔德小教堂则设有独立的入口，里面陈列着著名的赤陶墓碑以及众多纪念贝丁菲尔德家族的纪念碑和纪念物。小教堂内还设有一座近期修复的模型，展示了1948年之前的教堂原貌。
2016年11月，另一场灾难发生了。曾有窃贼偷走了贝丁菲尔德小教堂的铅制屋顶。虽然后来临时安装了屋顶以作应急，但仍无法完全阻挡风雨侵入这座古老的屋顶结构。遗憾的是，雨水渗透致使里面的陶土墓碑与纪念碑遭到了损坏。经过多年筹款及多次申请资助后，该屋顶终于在2019年得以更换，如今还配备了闭路电视监控系统与报警装置加以保护。目前小教堂内部也已完全干燥。目前，保护这些墓碑的工作仍在继续筹集资金中。我和丈夫拍摄了许多这张非常有趣的教堂的照片，那里还有赤陶材质的墓穴。我甚至从这里获得了灵感，写了一首名为《转瞬即逝的灵魂》的诗。
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