But "Straw Dogs," with its scruffy hayfield and the distant silhouette of a church steeple rising above leafless, early winter trees under scudding clouds, exudes a stirring romance, part Sam Peckinpah, part Thomas Hardy.
On the other side was the community of Seton Portage: a clutch of wooden houses centred on a derelict brown church, it's sharp, pinprick steeple rising above it all.
A historic and graceful mid-19th century Episcopal church in brownstone Brooklyn sustained major damage as a result of a lightning strike last week, and the four weakened steeples rising above the corners of its stately bell tower will have to be torn down.
The drive starts at the Canadian border and travels south, cutting through mountains and descending into valleys with ubiquitous white church steeples jutting above gold, bronze and red trees.
It was remarkable and even more beautiful in the fog with two church steeples raising above a tight row of old stone homes, each with a boat ramp that came down and met the sea.
AT THE end of the street stands the church, its steeple rising high above the roofs of the neighbouring terraces.
The actual church was largely spared, save for an off-kilter steeple hanging forlornly above the circular sanctuary.
In May, the Brighton Heights Reformed Church, whose steeple rises sharply above the parking lot, formally offered itself as a resting place.
Wide, cultivated fields mostly of potatoes and turnips small farmhouses, thin rural roads, a few tree lines as well as the occasional larger woods and, in the distance, a small, tidy village where the church steeple rises cleanly above the roof line.
Their description of the future sculptural facade appears in your mind's eye with its steeple head rising above when fundraising goals are met.
