Locations to stop by in and about Stratford: Coln Rogers
Stick to – from the street by means of the valley you can listen to the river Coln murmur by means of the water-meadows beneath. Water swirls spherical the legs of ingesting cattle, by way of the beds of yellow flags, amongst stepping-stones and previous the church winding down to Bibury and the valley’s end. This is Outdated England, Saxon settlements strung along a wooded valley every single with it is historical church: Coln St. Dennis, Coln Rogers, Winson, Bibury.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 excellent of his soul, in 1150. No far more than tiny hamlet that follows the highway, the church stands at the conclusion of a slender lane heading down to the river.
The church is just about totally late Saxon, only the Perpendicular tower, south porch and east wall have been included or substantially altered. Attribute Saxon features betray a woodworking custom adapted to stone. The angles of the nave have extensive-and-short perform in which upright and horizontal stones alternate vertically and the sides of the church have usual early flat pilasters. This is a scarce survival, a pre-Conquest setting up with a 1000 years of background established amongst the drinking water-meadows of a remote Cotswold valley.
The inside of the church is relatively plain and in fact heavily restored but it does have a C15 determine of St. Margaret in stained glass and a number of good C19 windows by Heaton, Butler and Baynes. A sizeable west gallery of 1910 supports the organ loft and an impressively primitive chancel arch divides the rectangular approach in two, a structure popular to Saxon buildings of this day. 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 smaller, round-headed Saxon window carved from a one block of stone. David Talbot Rice an specialist in Byzantine art is buried to the north of the church and by peering around the north-west wall of the churchyard you will see the ruins of C14 building, possibly a priest’s home.
The Coln valley is 1 of our ancient landscapes minimal altered by way of the generations, extensive may possibly it survive.
The Coln valley crosses the Fosseway just south of Northleach and is about an hrs journey from Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Posted by bwthornton on 2012-08-20 11:06:23
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