Church of St. Leonard, Rodney Stoke, Somerset.

Happy St. George's Day. #churcheswithhistory While visiting this church in early April there were workmen fixing a window. I have put the whole video/reel to music as the sound quality wasn't good. The Church of St Leonard in Rodney Stoke, Somerset, England. It is a Grade I listed building, particularly for the north side chapel, dedicated to the Rodney family and containing a fine collection of memorials and monuments from 1478 to 1659. It is a fine Norman building beyond that, with a typical English village church story, built around 1175, extended in the 15th Century and, unfortunately, ‘restored’ in or around 1879. The interior of the church contains a screen, bearing the date 1624, the gift of Sir Edward Rodney, which includes a representation of the martyrdom of St Erasmus, who was killed by having his entrails removed. Anne Lake Cecil, Lady Roos or de Ros (1599–1630) was an English aristocrat involved in a major scandal at the Jacobean court. The church underwent Victorian restoration in the 1870s when a slow combustion stove was installed in a pit in the floor. The parish is part of the Rodney Stoke with Draycott benefice which is within the Axbridge deanery. More information on wikipedia. Earl Marshal’s warrant dated 9 February 1938, issued at the request of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, stated that the Flag proper* to fly from a Church of England church was the Cross of St George (a red cross on a white background), with a shield of the arms of the diocese in which the church is situated, placed in the top corner nearest the flagpole (known as the canton). Danse Macabre by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...