Village Church
Built by Richard Marsden in September 2026 for the Part 52 Footprint Secretary’s Challenge
“Stands the church clock at ten to three
And is there honey still for tea?”
The clock in question – Grantchester — actually stopped at half past three. Even though that scans and rhymes just as well (although I never felt the first line scanned properly anyway, with the two adjacent words “church” and “clock” both stressed), Rupert Brooke clearly thought his choice of words had a better poetic flavour. Or perhaps he couldn’t wait the extra forty minutes for dessert. I don’t know; I know next to nothing about poets or poetry.
In the interests of fitting the model on top of Part 52, I’ve heavily simplified the shape of the church, just a tower and a nave, and no little spire in the middle of the tower. If poets can have their poetic licence, why not us?