All Saints Alton Priors - Sarsen Stones and Ancient Yew

[@JimChampion]

this (the stones under the trapdoors, the yew) has just come up in the book i’m reading! “Walking the great north line” by Robert Twigger. it was 99p on Kindle this week.

[@JimChampion]

I think we shall visit All Saints tomorrow, as part of a Ridgeway walk from the Sanctuary. Looks like it is going to be very warm.

[@TimPrevett]

@@JimChampion enjoy! Marvellous spot. Also some sarsen stones on a green as you get near the church

[@JimChampion]

@@TimPrevett turns out today was not the right day… when we got there rehearsals were going on inside the church for an afternoon Bach concert. so we sat outside and had lunch under the yew tree and heard the rehearsal but didn’t see stones on the inside. will go back another time.

[@JimChampion]

saw a lot of other things on the 20km round trip.

[@TimPrevett]

@@JimChampion argh, something of a mixed blessing!

[@ledacedar6253]

This is amazing and yes, like you I really love it. The ancient Yes tree is absolutely gorgeous within and without! Wow! Interesting how the church built over the stones yet respected them enough to provide hatch doors to view and leave gifts of honouring on! The town and it's Minister must be interesting or at least have interesting stories about it collected over time.Wish Canada wasn't so costly to fly from!

[@TimPrevett]

@@ledacedar6253 hello! Thanks for commenting; I’m not sure of the sequence of incorporating the stones. I think they will have been a later discovery with the hatches added to aid understanding of the history of the site. And I can’t help wondering if there are other Sarsen stones beneath the church that aren’t in places easy to create access hatches to. There are some Sarsen stones next to the road joining the through-road. Things have been going on here for a very long time!