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Great English Churches - by Lionel Wall

When I was researching my page on the Saxon Chapel of Belchamp Walter I came across Lionel Wall's website.

Lionel's website is a treasure trove of information and photographs of the churches that he and his wife have visited. It is worth a visit.

I notice that the English Churches website has been updated since I took a screenshot of it. I admit that I was more interested in the layout and how another webmaster had presented their visits to churches.

Lionel is still posting but the format of the site remains as it was. Sadly it does not display well on a mobile phone, which is a shame as that is probably the way that most visitors will find it.

Below is a screenshot of his home page - 9 May 2021: (This was taken some time ago - to see a current view please visit his website)

The tempusfugit website is more interested in Web Design coupled with the investigation of the history our own church and village. It is good to see what others have done and to take inspiration from them.

As it now February 2026 there has been many changes to both websites. As this website is wholly my own it is constantly evolving.

9 May 2021
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I constantly monitor accesses to this site and make adjustments when I see what visitors are interested in.

Mediaeval Wall Paintings

I was curious about the spelling - but I guess my time living in Canada may have blinded me up to now.

medievalists.net say:

When it comes to choosing medieval or mediaeval, it has been commonly observed people in Great Britain were more willing to use the ae, while Americans preferred just using the e. Perhaps this was true, but even the British gradually shifted to medieval.

By the middle of the twentieth century it was clear that medieval would be the common spelling. This was not an inevitable outcome, for archaeology remains far more popular than archeology. However, it seems that the word mediaeval will not be making a comeback. Only a handful of books published in recent years use that term.

There are a few places where the word mediaeval endures. For example, the University of Toronto has both a Centre of Medieval Studies and a Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, so perhaps the older form will live on.

NetObjects Fusion

As you will see on other pages on tempusfugit.me.uk there is more emphasis on web design than there is on churches. My interest in church crawling is a secondary one, I started out this website from a technical standpoint and the design is continually evolving.

Looking into NetObjects Fusion I can see Lionel's problem. This is why I have stayed away from Content Management Systems

My interest and the thrust for this website is website design and local history, which includes the local churches. I am aslo the webamster for the village's Parish Council and was formaly the same for the Village Hall. The Village Hall is now gone off a CMS/Wordpress direction, so I have no real interest in that.

The WYSIWYG approach has never been my preference and the learning of HTML, Javascript and CSS has always been something that have enjoyed and is in keeping with my professional background. I take pride in presenting pages on the Internet that are both responsive (looking good on mobile phones, tablets and computers) and hopefully are easy to navigate.

SEO is also an interest of mine and maybe why this page was found.

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References: - a note on these -

  • 1 - Is it medieval or mediaeval? - https:// www.medievalists.net/ 2018/01/ medieval-or-mediaeval/
  • 2 - Great English Churches - Lionel Wall - https:// www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/ index.html
  • 3 - St Giles - Great Maplestead - https:// greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/ great_maplestead.html - There was a visit to my page on Great Maplestead on the same day as the visit here - Lionel's photographs are well worth the visit.
  • 4 - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies - https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Pontifical_Institute_of_Mediaeval_Studies
  • 5 - NetObjects Fusion - https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ NetObjects_Fusion
  • 6 - gotfusion.com - https:// www.gotfusion.com/

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