Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
• At the modern road, turn left (leaving Bike Route #90) and bike to the big
village church. Before turning left to roll through Bregninge, visit the church.
Bregninge Church:
The interior of the 12th-century Bregninge church is
still painted as a Gothic church would have been. Find the painter's self-por-
trait (behind the pulpit, right of front pew). Tradition says that if the painter
wasn't happy with his pay, he'd paint a fool's head in the church (above third
pew on left). Note how the fool's mouth—the hole for a rope tied to the
bell—has been worn wider and wider by centuries of ringing. (During ser-
vices, the ringing bell would call those who were ill and too contagious to
be allowed into the church to come for communion—distributed through the
square hatches flanking the altar.)
