Places to visit in and around Stratford: Coln Rogers
Abide by – from the street by means of the valley you can hear the river Coln murmur via the water-meadows under. Water swirls round the legs of ingesting cattle, by means of the beds of yellow flags, amongst stepping-stones and past the church winding down to Bibury and the valley’s end. This is Previous England, Saxon settlements strung alongside a wooded valley each with it is ancient church: Coln St. Dennis, Coln Rogers, Winson, Bibury. Coln Rogers was the reward of a C12 knight, Roger of Gloster wounded at Walyeson, to the Abbey of Gloucester, for the excellent of his soul, in 1150. No extra than small hamlet that follows the street, the church stands at the finish of a slender lane heading down towards the river.
The church is practically solely late Saxon, only the Perpendicular tower, south porch and east wall have been included or significantly altered. Characteristic Saxon capabilities betray a woodworking tradition adapted to stone. The angles of the nave have extended-and-shorter function where by upright and horizontal stones alternate vertically and the sides of the church have normal early flat pilasters. This is a exceptional survival, a pre-Conquest creating with a 1000 yrs of heritage established amongst the water-meadows of a distant Cotswold valley.
The interior of the church is rather plain and certainly seriously restored but it does have a C15 figure of St. Margaret in stained glass and many superior C19 home 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 format typical to Saxon properties of this day. On the south of the nave the pilaster is inscribed with a Saxon scratch-dial with 5 radii and the north wall of the nave has a tiny, round-headed Saxon window carved from a single block of stone. David Talbot Rice an pro in Byzantine artwork is buried to the north of the church and by peering more than the north-west wall of the churchyard you will see the ruins of C14 making, probably a priest’s house.
The Coln valley is one particular of our ancient landscapes tiny altered as a result of the generations, very long could 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 11:14:52
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