Suffolk: Lavenham

Mr X and I took a day trip to a little village called Lavenham in the Suffolk region of England. This town is well known for it's half timbered medieval cottages. They are interesting to see as the majority of them look like there can't be a single right angle in the entire house. Some of them even look like they might collapse at any moment.

This is the church of St. Peter and St Paul, in Lavenham. It is a 15th century church.

It it quite beautiful inside. I found it interesting that the ceilings were made of timber, unlike the many other churches into which I've been in Europe.

I absolutely love stained glass windows.

Here I am, enjoying some rare sunshine for a few moments.

  

A very typical sign for a local pub.

This is one of those houses that I was telling you about - Mr X went inside and it didn't collapse on him so that was good.

While we were out and about we enjoyed a lovely afternoon cream tea. I learned that it is called "Cream Tea" when you have your traditional afternoon tea with scones, clotted cream and jam. Apparently depending on the region you either put the cream under the jam or over it. I tried it both ways and I prefer the cream on the bottom. It's really quite delicious.

Here we have two very distinct but common styles of houses in Suffolk: The thatched roof house and the flint house. I kept waffling back and forth on which style I preferred. Of course I also very much like the half timbered houses (as in the photo below) as well.