Yesterday was our annual CCC Points of View Day, this year set in Soham with five subjects to photograph including the church. We had to show its magnificence - not difficult as it is a very impressive building inside and outside.
The area around St Andrew’s Church has been a place of Christian worship for over 1,300 years. The first Abbey was in use for over 200 years until it was destroyed in AD 869/70 when the Danish ‘Great Heathen Army’ overran East Anglia. It was rebuilt and much of the original 12th century building church is still standing today. Further additions and alterations were made in the 14th and 15th centuries including the construction of the bell tower, clerestory, pews with carved poppy heads, misericords and a tie-beam roof in the nave decorated with carved angels, now sadly lacking their wings.
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