St Mary & St Lawrence's Church, Stratford Tony

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church
Location Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates 51°02′13″N 1°52′14″W / 51.03694°N 1.87056°W / 51.03694; -1.87056Coordinates: 51°02′13″N 1°52′14″W / 51.03694°N 1.87056°W / 51.03694; -1.87056
Built 13th century
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence
Designated 23 March 1960[1]
Reference no. 1181901
Location of St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Wiltshire

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 1 October 1984, and was vested in the Trust on 26 March 1986.[3]

The stone and flint church is on the banks of the River Ebble and accessed down a narrow lane, then across a stream and up a steep bank on foot.[2] The chancel dates from the 14th, but was built on the site of an earlier church.[1][4] The tower is from the 15th, while the nave was rebuilt in the 18th century.[1] The three-stage west tower has a pyramidal tiled roof and is supported by diagonal buttresses. Around the church walls are a collection of gargoyles.[1]

The interior of the church includes a 14th-century font and box pews with colonnaded tops.[5] The stained glass in the east window was installed by the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe in 1884.[2] The stalls and pews are from the 17th century.[6] Memorials include a marble plaque to George Taunton and a wall tablet to Elizabeth Hill who died in 1715.[1]

In 2012 Loyd Grossman, who is the chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, visited the church and presented certificates yo local school children who had researched the history of the church.[7]

There is a large Yew tree in the churchyard with a girth of over 11 feet (3.4 m).[8][9] Among the graves and tombs in the churchyard is a chest tomb to Anthony Bradbury who dies in 1845.[10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Historic England, "Church of St. Mary and St. Lawrence, Stratford Tony (1181901)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 13 June 2014
  2. 1 2 3 Church of St Mary & St Lawrence, Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 1 April 2011
  3. ↑ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 10, retrieved 1 April 2011
  4. ↑ "Stratford Tony Church". The Bishopstone Village Website. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "Church of St Mary and St Lawrence, Stratford Tony". Visit Wiltshire. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  6. ↑ "Through the Nadder and Chalke Valleys". Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  7. ↑ Blake, Morwena (28 May 2012). "Pupils meet Loyd Grossman". Salisbury Journal. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  8. ↑ "Stratford Tony". Discover Chalke Valley. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  9. ↑ Norton, Peter. "Wiltshire Yews An Inventory of Churchyard Yews Along the Ebble Valley" (PDF). Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  10. ↑ "Bradbury monument, in the Churchyard, about 1 metre north of nave of Church of St Mary and St Lawrence". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
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