Old Church Door...

The Camera Club challenge this week is 'Doors and Doorways', I took this photograph for it.

This is no ordinary Church Door. It's the North Door of St Botolph’s Church, Hadstock just up the road from Linton and doesn't look like much... but both door and doorway are Saxon and pre-date the conquest. This church, even if it has been extended and modernised at times throughout history, has been in continuous use for more than 1,000 years, making this the oldest door and doorway in the country that is still in use for it's original purpose.

In 1016 Cnut (Canute) won a great battle hereabouts, and ordered a church be built to commemorate the battle. Many say St Botolph's Hadstock is that church. The door has been dated to 1020 amazing to think that perhaps Cnut went through this very door when the church was consecrated.

The extra is a view of St Botolph's helped a little bit in photoshop.