Perhaps Chedworth is best known for it's Roman villa hidden at the end of a wooded valley a short distance from the village. Chedworth is a linear settlement which follows a steep sided valley for several miles, the small cottages that make up the majority of the buildings are masked amongst the trees and lost from sight by the rise and fall of the land. Perhaps the centre of the village is it's beginning, the group of houses that cluster below the church, which is cut into the steep valley side above. All is quiet and calm, paddocks with sheep, chickens, a pair of donkeys and even llamas line the road. The church is an early foundation, parts of the present structure dating to the late Norman period, most notably the tower. However it is the beauty of the setting, looking out over the valley below and the dramatic wall of Perpendicular windows that make up the south facade that add such beauty to this remote church. The south wall is also remarkable for a series of inscriptions from the late 15th century which include dates written in Arabic numerals. This early use of a system of notation which would revolutionize mathematical calculation is perhaps the product of the international connections of local wool merchants. Chedworth was once a busier place, the remains of a disused railway run through the village and indeed through a substantial tunnel nearby and a Wartime air field can be seen in the fields beyond. www.bwthornton.co.uk
Toddington lies between Broadway and Winchcombe and is home to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. The manor was designed by amateur architect Charles Hanbury-Tracy who chaired the commission which chose Barry's design for the new Houses of Parliament in 1835. Toddington Manor is thought to have influenced Barry's design.It was recently bought by Damian Hirst who is converting the building into a gallery to exhibit his collection of art. The church would grace a small town, built by the architect G.E. Street between 1873-9 from Cotswold stone no expense was spared. www.bwthornton.co.uk
A stained glass window (1917) of an organist and knight, by A J Davies, in St Andrew & St Mary, How Caple, Herefordshire (I apologise that there was little sunshine coming through this window at the time - and it was taken 6 years ago, when I did not know much about photographing stained glass!).
"Hail, precious Cross: receive the disciple of my Master, Jesus Christ, who hung upon you." – Benedictus antiphon for the feast of St Andrew (30 Nov). Stained glass window, c.1885 in the Rollins Chapel of Dartmouth College.
Places to visit in and around Stratford: Coln Rogers Follow - from the road through the valley you can hear the river Coln murmur through the water-meadows below. Water swirls round the legs of drinking cattle, through the beds of yellow flags, between stepping-stones and past the church winding down to Bibury and the valley’s end. This is Old England, Saxon settlements strung along a wooded valley each with it’s ancient church: Coln St. Dennis, Coln Rogers, Winson, Bibury. Coln Rogers was the gift of a C12 knight, Roger of Gloster wounded at Walyeson, to the Abbey of Gloucester, for the good of his soul, in 1150. No more than small hamlet that follows the road, the church stands at the end of a narrow lane heading down towards the river. The church is almost entirely late Saxon, only the Perpendicular tower, south porch and east wall have been added or substantially altered. Characteristic Saxon features betray a woodworking tradition adapted to stone. The angles of the nave have long-and-short work where upright and horizontal stones alternate vertically and the sides of the church have typical early flat pilasters. This is a rare survival, a pre-Conquest building with a 1000 years of history set amongst the water-meadows of a remote Cotswold valley. The interior of the church is rather plain and indeed heavily restored but it does have a C15 figure of St. Margaret in stained glass and several good C19 windows by Heaton, Butler and Baynes. A substantial west gallery of 1910 supports the organ loft and an impressively primitive chancel arch divides the rectangular plan in two, a layout common to Saxon buildings of this date. On the south of the nave the pilaster is inscribed with a Saxon scratch-dial with five radii and the north wall of the nave has a small, round-headed Saxon window carved from a single block of stone. David Talbot Rice an expert in Byzantine art is buried to the north of the church and by peering over the north-west wall of the churchyard you will see the ruins of C14 building, possibly a priest’s house. The Coln valley is one of our ancient landscapes little altered through the centuries, long may it survive. The Coln valley crosses the Fosseway just south of Northleach and is about an hours journey from Stratford-upon-Avon. www.bwthornton.co.uk
This beautiful window is the Annunciation by C E Kempe. Gabriel and Mary are to be found in the beautiful round tower church of St Andrew in the village of Letheringsett in Norfolk.
Retrochoir, south window, c1907 : detail - Peterborough Cathedral
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Its along time since I found any new instrument playing stained glass angels. But on Bank Holiday Monday, I struck gold in more ways than one, I found a few beautiful angels for my Heavenly Orchestra series. These angels could be paintings, they are so detailed and the gold is wonderful. You can find them…
My idea of what a Heavenly Orchestra would look look.
Perhaps Chedworth is best known for it's Roman villa hidden at the end of a wooded valley a short distance from the village. Chedworth is a linear settlement which follows a steep sided valley for several miles, the small cottages that make up the majority of the buildings are masked amongst the trees and lost from sight by the rise and fall of the land. Perhaps the centre of the village is it's beginning, the group of houses that cluster below the church, which is cut into the steep valley side above. All is quiet and calm, paddocks with sheep, chickens, a pair of donkeys and even llamas line the road. The church is an early foundation, parts of the present structure dating to the late Norman period, most notably the tower. However it is the beauty of the setting, looking out over the valley below and the dramatic wall of Perpendicular windows that make up the south facade that add such beauty to this remote church. The south wall is also remarkable for a series of inscriptions from the late 15th century which include dates written in Arabic numerals. This early use of a system of notation which would revolutionize mathematical calculation is perhaps the product of the international connections of local wool merchants. Chedworth was once a busier place, the remains of a disused railway run through the village and indeed through a substantial tunnel nearby and a Wartime air field can be seen in the fields beyond. www.bwthornton.co.uk
1869-1870 by J. Johnson jr with the spire finished in 1875-76. The south doorway remains from the medieval building. binary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary commentbinary…
St. Andrew, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and the brother of St. Peter.
St Andrew
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