Sites to visit in and all around Stratford: Coln Rogers
Abide by – from the street by the valley you can listen to the river Coln murmur via the h2o-meadows beneath. Water swirls spherical the legs of drinking cattle, by the beds of yellow flags, in between stepping-stones and past the church winding down to Bibury and the valley’s finish. This is Old England, Saxon settlements strung together a wooded valley each and every with it’s ancient church: Coln St. Dennis, Coln Rogers, Winson, Bibury. Coln Rogers was the present of a C12 knight, Roger of Gloster wounded at Walyeson, to the Abbey of Gloucester, for the great of his soul, in 1150. No more than small hamlet that follows the street, the church stands at the close of a slim lane heading down towards the river.
The church is practically entirely late Saxon, only the Perpendicular tower, south porch and east wall have been extra or significantly altered. Attribute Saxon attributes betray a woodworking custom adapted to stone. The angles of the nave have extensive-and-short operate the place upright and horizontal stones alternate vertically and the sides of the church have standard early flat pilasters. This is a rare survival, a pre-Conquest building with a 1000 decades of background established among the h2o-meadows of a distant Cotswold valley.
The interior of the church is somewhat basic and indeed heavily restored but it does have a C15 figure of St. Margaret in stained glass and several excellent 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 strategy in two, a format common to Saxon buildings of this date. 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 small, round-headed Saxon window carved from a one block of stone. David Talbot Rice an pro in Byzantine artwork is buried to the north of the church and by peering about the north-west wall of the churchyard you will see the ruins of C14 developing, probably a priest’s home.
The Coln valley is a person of our historic landscapes very little altered via the generations, lengthy may it endure.
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 11:22:15
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