2022
TM4156 : Nave of St Botolph's Church
taken 2 years ago, near to Iken, Suffolk, England
Nave of St Botolph's Church
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that in 654 "Botulf ongon minster timbran æt Icanho" - St Botolph began his wooden minster at Iken Hoe, a desolate promontory overlooking the tortuous estuary of the Alde. His church was destroyed by Danish invaders in 870 but eventually rebuilt by the Normans, extended in the 15th century and restored in 1853 by John Whichcord, architect of the Grand Hotel in Brighton. In 1968 the thatched nave was gutted in a blaze, the firefighters being unable to access it with their engines along the narrow church lane. Restoration was completed in 1989 by Derek Woodley. The benches date from 1869 and were designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott for St Edmundsbury Cathedral.
Suffolk Churches
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St Botolph's is listed Grade II (the listing citation records its state after the 1968 fire and before the completion of reinstatement in 1989)
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