Inside the church of St Arild, a little known fifth of sixth century Gloucestershire saint, a ‘virgin martyr’ who was killed for saying no to sex with a man called Municus. This is one of two churches dedicated to her, though it is no longer in use and looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust.
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St Catherine’s - the old chapel on the hill at Abbotsbury in Dorset, overlooking the sea. Dedicated to St Catherine of Alexandria (she of the Catherine Wheel) it looks bigger from far away. After a steep climb you find is empty inside, yet still atmospheric, battered by the wind.
It can be dated in style to the late 14th century, sturdily built of the local golden buff limestone. The walls are high and heavily buttressed to take the stone vaulted roof. The buttresses and the stair turret were once crowned with pinnacles. There are porches on both north and south walls. In medieval times it would have had stained glass in the windows, and details of the roof picked out in bright colours. At the intersections of the vaulting are bosses carved with foliage and animals.
Carving of a passionflower on a piece of stone at the chapel-of-ease of St Nicholas at the hamlet of Tytherton Lucas, Wiltshire. Its 12th century bell is reckoned to be one of the oldest in the county.
Old church of St John the Baptist at Symondsbury, Dorset
Canons Ashby II: all that remains of the west end of the nave of the Augustinian Priory founded around 1150, and destroyed by Henry VIII
Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire.
All that remains of the west end of the nave of the Augustinian Priory founded around 1150, and destroyed by Henry VIII
Little flint walled village church
The flint adorned church of St Michael and All Angels in the Kennet Valley
All Saints - parish church. Origins in the 13th century.
Wiltshire Cotswolds
Fragments
Medieval church of St Lawrence, Didmarton. Origins in the 13th century.
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