martin clark
pinko bodger
No, I think the other theme that is emerging in this thread is equally worthy - 'impressive' does not have to mean big or ..floral, decorated, expansive: it can also be the delightful, small quiet places in which you find a space for a moment of peace or pause or reflection ( and I say this as an atheist)
One of my favourites local to me is the Saxon church in Bradford-upon-Avon - so unassuming it was essentially forgotten to be a church for over 800yrs! It is a small, human-scale building; not impressive in any great architectural sense - good if crude stone, dark, simple - yet the continuity, the age and simplicity of the space, the fact it is still there and serves much of its original purpose, of value(s) common to humanity then as now a millennium later: that is special.
http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/bradford-on-avon.html
(the pics belie things: this place is tiny)
One of my favourites local to me is the Saxon church in Bradford-upon-Avon - so unassuming it was essentially forgotten to be a church for over 800yrs! It is a small, human-scale building; not impressive in any great architectural sense - good if crude stone, dark, simple - yet the continuity, the age and simplicity of the space, the fact it is still there and serves much of its original purpose, of value(s) common to humanity then as now a millennium later: that is special.
http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/bradford-on-avon.html
(the pics belie things: this place is tiny)