The village of Prestbury in Cheshire was once notorious for being home to a high proportion of millionaires and professional footballers. It still has some well known inhabitants but it also has St Peter’s Church and its associated Norman Chapel.
At the end of the 12th century the local Anglo-Saxon church was demolished and what is now the Norman Chapel was built and served as the place of worship for the parish of Prestbury.
In 1220 work on the current church began just a little way away from the Norman Chapel. The new church, St Peter’s has been enlarged and remodelled many times over the centuries while the Norman Chapel was allowed to fall into disrepair. In 1592 the chapel was sketched by the artist Randle Holmes as a roofless ruin. In 1747 the chapel was rebuilt and restored and new windows added as recently as 1977. Probably the only visible parts of the orginal that can be seen now is the doorway.
I decided to go and photograph the Church and Chapel using my Pentax P30T with 28-80mm zoom lens using Kodak Tri-X shot at ISO400.
The film was developed in D76 as recommended and the negatives scanned with a Plustek OpticFilm 8100 scanner.
I BOUGHT AN OLD FILM CAMERA 