All Saints, Sutton Bassett

Isn't this sweet?

The tiny church of All Saints is in Sutton Bassett. It was locked last Saturday - though the addresses where you could call for a key were listed on the door - but you can read about the interior on The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland.

Although Sutton Bassett is a small village, a few houses and the Queen's Head strung out along one road, it used to have a Methodist chapel too. And what with the beer festival, a vintage bus parked on the road and an ambulance trying to get through the throng, it even had  traffic jam while I was there.

Welland Valley Beer Festival

I have spent the day enjoying the Welland Valley Beer Festival - nine pubs, stretching from Great Bowden on the edge of Market Harborough to Lyddington in Rutland, served by a relay of vintage buses. How can you not enjoy that? The buses also call at Market Harborough station, so it is easy to reach it from further afield.

I visited the Talbot Inn at Gretton, the Wheel & Compass at Weston by Welland and the Queen's Head at Sutton Bassett. In between I found some things to photograph and even had a walk between those last two villages, though that is the shortest between participating pubs apart from the two in Lyddington,which really would have been cheating.

As to the beer, I rather liked Biggus Dickus from Nobby's Brewery at Guilsborough - and not just for the name. And I enjoyed listening to The Others at the Queen's Head.