The Levels (2012)
“It’s a lonely village with this jewel at its heart, like a huge stone radiator, a place visited by scholars and students of Architecture. The basketmakers have left though not the ghostly echo of their working, in the tumbledown sheds and lean-tos at the backs of houses. The Church of Saint Mary, the Virgin, Isle Abbots.
There are few places in the county which exert such a fascination as this remote moorland church, which sits like a queen with her court ranged around her in widening circl...es. The closest of these is formed of Curry Mallet, Beer Crowcombe, Ilton, Stocklinch, Kingsbury, Muchelney and Swell... Isle Abbots is the innermost shrine, the heart and core of so much beauty. Moreover, it is the most intact. Ten of its ancient statues still fill the niches of the perfect tower. The chancel, doubtless built by the monks of Muchelney, the owners of the church, survives from the thirteenth century... Around the base of the tower, beneath the Virgin and the Risen Christ, the lichen and the sunlight add ever new tones to the golden surface of the box tombs, the buttresses, the niches, the wall and the churchyard grass.MoreLess
There are few places in the county which exert such a fascination as this remote moorland church, which sits like a queen with her court ranged around her in widening circl...es. The closest of these is formed of Curry Mallet, Beer Crowcombe, Ilton, Stocklinch, Kingsbury, Muchelney and Swell... Isle Abbots is the innermost shrine, the heart and core of so much beauty. Moreover, it is the most intact. Ten of its ancient statues still fill the niches of the perfect tower. The chancel, doubtless built by the monks of Muchelney, the owners of the church, survives from the thirteenth century... Around the base of the tower, beneath the Virgin and the Risen Christ, the lichen and the sunlight add ever new tones to the golden surface of the box tombs, the buttresses, the niches, the wall and the churchyard grass.MoreLess
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