December 2024 Picture of the Month

For more than twenty years in the early 17th century, the Rector of East Knoyle Parish Church was Dr. Christopher Wren, father of the architect of St. Paul's Cathedral. Sir Christopher Wren was born in East Knoyle in 1632, but nine years before his famus son was born, Dr. Wren fell foul of Oliver Cromwell's men when he designed richly ornamented plasterwork for the chancel in the church – and thus contravened the recently-implemented protocols for a more austere lack of decoration in places of worship.  This is one of the images from my forthcoming book In Search of Wiltshire, due early summer 2025.  Canon 5D Mk IV, 24mm lens.