Tourist in My Town (Yet Again)

Jesus College

The following photos were taken in Cambridge (and on the car journey out of it into the adjacent South Cambridgeshire rurality) on the same day as The Painted Church photographs. Take a look at, and a read of, the previous post to get a feel for my tendency to be touristically photographic in my own town. It's a trend I've maintained across the 10 years of this blog.

In the meantime, this is what the lens of my camera saw:

The Painted Church

As befits a post in the commemorative 10th year of this blog, this post has a number of links to previous ones.

Over the years, I have produced a number of "Tourist in my Town" posts, which basically gave me carte blanche to wander around Cambridge with a camera, just  like a tourist. Examples of this are the 2017 Tourist in My Town - Turrets and Towers and the appropriately named 2019 Tourist in My Town 2019. There are others.

I also have a thing about the Arts and Crafts movement, as you may have gathered if you have seen last year's Kelmscott on A Rainy July Weekend .

So, what better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this blog than to be a tourist in my town, yet again, and visit Cambridge's own Arts and Crafts church.

This is All Saints' Cambridge, The Painted Church You can click on the link to find the church's website, and you should. All Saints' needs the love. In summary, and to borrow from the website:

"The Painted Church is one of Cambridge’s hidden treasures, designed by George Frederick Bodley. It remains one of the finest examples of Victorian Gothic in the country, both for its exceptional hand painted walls and for the spectacular stained glass."

To accompany images of the "interior decoration which showcases the work of master decorator Frederick Leach of Cambridge and his firm of decorative artists" and the stained glass by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and Philip Webb, Charles Eamer Kempe, Douglas Strachan and Ward & Hughes, there are images of ecclesiastical fabrics created by Watts & Company (no relation - that I know of). The church was hosting an exhibition of the company's work on the day I visited.