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Cranwell, RAF Cranwell
Cranwell, RAF Cranwell
Cranwell, RAF Cranwell

RAF Cranwell viewed from the south across Ermine Street Solar Farm and the A17.

"Home to the Royal Air Force College (RAFC), which trains the RAF's new officers and Aircrew"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Cranwell 

Tower of College Hall visible right of center. 

DB 2020

RAF Cranwell, Royal Air Force College
Cranwell, RAF East Camp
Cranwell, RAF East Camp
Cranwell, RAF East Camp

In the foreground is the railway line which ran from Sleaford to RAF Cranwell between 1917 & 1956 though passenger services ceased in 1926.

Undated postcard by Raphael Tuck 

Cranwell,
Cranwell, RAF East Camp
Cranwell, RAF East Camp
Cranwell, RAF East Camp
The main entrance to the East Camp at RAF Cranwell.
Cranwell, RAF Station, East Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp

The fitter's shop at the West Camp at RAF Cranwell.

undated postcard

Cranwell, RAF, fitters' shop
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
undated postcard
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
undated postcard
Cranwell, RAF West Camp
Cranwell, St Andrew
Cranwell, St Andrew
Cranwell, St Andrew

Strange-looking with its seventeenth-century bellcote and a chancel higher than the nave.

Its Saxon origins can be seen in the north east angle of the nave interior.

The Perpendicular chancel was mostly rebuilt by Hodgson Fowler in 1903-4.

Mark Acton, 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, Hodgson Fowler
Cranwell, St Andrew
Cranwell, St Andrew
Cranwell, St Andrew

Pevsner surmises that the bellcote on the west gable dates from the late 1600s.

The wheel for the bell is placed vertically in an east-west direction, an unusual arrangement.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, bellcote
Cranwell, St Andrew, aumbry
Cranwell, St Andrew, aumbry
Cranwell, St Andrew, aumbry

A simple undecorated aumbry set in the north wall of the chancel.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, aumbry
Cranwell, St Andrew, capital
Cranwell, St Andrew, capital
Cranwell, St Andrew, capital

This capital at the east end of the north arcade has large scallops and responds with upright leaves and volutes.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, capital
Cranwell, St Andrew, font
Cranwell, St Andrew, font
Cranwell, St Andrew, font

This small plain octagonal font dates from the Perpendicular period.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, font
Cranwell, St Andrew, graffito
Cranwell, St Andrew, graffito
Cranwell, St Andrew, graffito

Graffito with figures.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, graffiti
Cranwell, St Andrew, interior
Cranwell, St Andrew, interior
Cranwell, St Andrew, interior

The north arcade of three bays dates from the Norman period. Round arches are surmounted by a billet mould.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, interior
Cranwell, St Andrew, Saxon stones
Cranwell, St Andrew, Saxon stones
Cranwell, St Andrew, Saxon stones

Three of these pieces of Saxon sculpture are from a grave cover and the fourth from a cross shaft.

June 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, Saxon stones
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial
Cranwell, St Andrew, War Memorial

The First World War memorial to the fallen of the village.

Mark Acton, 2017

Cranwell, St Andrew, First World War memorial
Cranwell, workmen
Cranwell, workmen
Cranwell, workmen

Group of workmen with board reading "J Jackson, 1922, at Cranwell".

 

Cranwell, J Jackson