Remains of All Saints Church, Segenhoe Old Church, Ridgemont, Bedfordshire, England
Segenhoe church is a roofless ruin that is now preserved in that state. Its current state of preservation shows how it was constructed. The skin of the chancel is 11th century; around the time of the Norman Conquest. The chancel arch and south side of the nave are slightly later Norman work, the north arcade being 13th to 14th century. The church had a wooden steeple before 19th century alterations and new Perpendicular style windows were installed in 1751 and 1782. The church had a 14th century font which was moved to the new church in 1855, returned in 1904 and was damaged sometime in the 1960s. The church was repaired by Robert Nixon of Woburn between 1818 and 1819 when the north porch was rebuilt, the walls repaired with brick and most of the windows enlarged and fitted with wooden tracery; the roofs were reconstructed and the lead replaced with slate and the exterior finished in stucco. By 1912 the church was described as derelict and demolition was suggested in 1927 but inspection by of the Central Council for the Care of Churches discovered the ancient fabric which was restored by between 1928 and 1929. A series of articles in the Bedfordshire Magazine between 1959 and 1961 highlighted the deteriorating condition of the building, the roof virtually collapsing by 1970. The Ampthill & District Archaeological and Local History Society campaigned for preservation of the ruin and in 1980 the church was formally declared redundant and the ruins consolidated by Bedfordshire County Council in 1982.
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Location: Segenhoe Old Curch, Ridgemont, Bedfordshire, England.
Photo credit: © john briscoe / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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