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Suffolk Ride and Stride, 11th September 2021

David and Fiona Sanderson will once again be riding for St Mary's in Chediston in the annual Suffolk Historic Churches Ride 'n Stride event on Saturday 11th September.

Ride and Stride is an event run entirely by volunteers and is inter-denominational, with participants sponsored for each place of worship visited between 9.00am and 5.00pm on Ride and Stride Day or with a donation, regardless of the number of churches visited.

David and Fiona will be riding 50 miles to 10 spectacular Suffolk churches in aid of St Mary's Chediston & the Suffolk Historic Churches Trust. The planned route, including refreshment stops, is shown here along with a photo from last year's event. David and Fiona would welcome any fellow riders to join with them.

David says: In case anyone is teetering over whether to ride with us, this little titbit from the wonderful www.suffolkchurches.co.uk will give you a flavour of what these churches have to offer.  There are 707 churches described on this website.  Its curator Simon Knott has listed his top 60.  We are visiting Nos 3, 12, 14, 19, 24, 32 & 34.  This is from his description of No.3:   "But you have to step inside to discover that Thornham Parva church is one of the most remarkable of all small churches in East Anglia, a treasure house, an aesthetic pleasure, a delight. It has been shaped by an intensely rural collision of historical circumstances, and they have left a moving and coherent document of our Suffolk past, and a church which attracts visitors from all over the world, for it is worth seeing and worth going to see. In particular, it has not one but two remarkable survivals. If they were in the Victoria and Albert Museum we would willingly travel to London to see them, and happily pay handsomely for doing so. And yet here they are, in the fields that punctuate the Thornham woods, in a church which is open every day."
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