St James' Church
The village church of St James dates from the late 13th century. It has long been classified 'redundant', and is therefore no longer used for worship, but is maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust and open to visitors daily. Jools Holland was married there in August 2007. In the churchyard are a group of children's gravestones which are widely considered to have inspired Charles Dickens' description of the churchyard in the opening scene of the novel Great Expectations.
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“He prayed more deeply for simple selflessness than he had ever prayed before—and, feeling an uprush of grace in the very intention, shed the night in his heart and called it light. And walking out of the little church he felt confirmed in not only the worth of his whispered prayer but in the realization, as well, that Christ had become man and not some bell-shaped Corinthian column with volutes for veins and a mandala of stone foliage for a heart.”
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