2023
TF3344 : View northeast from Boston Stump
taken 2 years ago, near to Boston, Lincolnshire, England
View northeast from Boston Stump
Prominent in the foreground is the Centenary Methodist Church in Red Lion Street, originally an unpretentious stock-brick Wesleyan chapel of 1839 but with its west front grandiosely rebuilt after a fire of 1910 by the London architects Henry Thomas Gordon and Josiah Gunton, in a style that Pevsner and Harris described as "Edwardian megalomaniac". In the centre background the tall chimney and the ten-storey block belong to the Pilgrim Hospital, built in stages in the 1960s and 1970s. To the right is the five-sailed Maud Foster tower windmill, built in 1819 and still grinding corn.
St Botolph's - Climbing the tower :: TF3244 If you are feeling energetic you can climb about 2/3 the way up Boston's famous landmark - the tower of St Botolph's church, known as The Stump.
There are over 200 steps to ascend to the gallery, and slightly fewer (but still over 200) to descend via a different staircase. The spiral staircases are in two halves each of about 100 steps, the higher rise being far narrower than the lower one. The rise and pitch of the individual steps varies and my thigh muscles were complaining by the time I got to the gallery ! As the tower is 272' tall, the gallery must be at about 180' elevation.
The views from the gallery are excellent, and apparently on a clear day such as this can be over 30 miles over the surrounding very flat countryside. At the time of our visit the northern walkway was closed off as the parapet wall was damaged - and you really wouldn't want to plummet from this height I can assure you!
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- TF3344, 164 images (more nearby
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- Photographer
- Tiger (more nearby)
- Date Taken
- Saturday, 16 September, 2023 (more nearby)
- Submitted
- Sunday, 17 September, 2023
- Subject Location
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OSGB36:
TF 330 446 [100m precision]
WGS84: 52:58.9617N 0:1.2229W
- Camera Location
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OSGB36:
TF 326 441
- View Direction
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Northeast (about 45 degrees)
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