Music for the Angels - St Edmund, Acle, Norfolk

 

St Edmund, Acle, has a wealth of interesting features to recommend it, but here is something that is easily missed... 

In the spandrels of a set of early twentieth century benches in the chancel is an angel puffing away into a small set of bagpipes. If you have ever wondered what an angel's bagpipes sound like, then the anonymous carver of these spandrels offers  us some idea in the form of his carving of the angel opposite this musician...

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