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St. Mary the Virgin Churchyard

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Location	:	Forthampton, Tewkesbury Borough, England
Coordinate	:	51.9912630, -2.2072860
Description	:	Forthampton is home to the church of St Mary the Virgin. This church is part of the wider Severnside Benefice, which comprises the Parishes of Chaceley, Forthampton, Deerhurst with Apperley, and Tredington with Stoke Orchard and Hardwicke. The Benefice is set in the Severn Vale, and is part of the Diocese of Gloucester. The church consists of a nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, and south porch. The tower is 13th Century with massive diagonal west buttresses and a stair-vice on the north-east corner. The tower has three stages and a plain parapet. The font is a memorial to Susan... Read More	Forthampton is home to the church of St Mary the Virgin. This church is part of the wider Severnside Benefice, which comprises the Parishes of Chaceley, Forthampton, Deerhurst with Apperley, and Tredington with Stoke Orchard and Hardwicke. The Benefice is set in the Severn Vale, and is part of the Diocese of Gloucester. The church consists of a nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, and south porch. The tower is 13th Century with massive diagonal west buttresses and a stair-vice on the north-east corner. The tower has three stages and a plain parapet. The font is a memorial to Susan Plumtre who died in 1849. It is elaborately fashioned in stone and marbles. There is stained glass in the church - in the west window of the north aisle - by Clayton & Bell, 1862. In the churchyard, there is a whipping post and stocks, west of the church. The post has manacles and stocks for three. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anglican parish church. Restored 1788, North Aisle was added. 1847-48 by Hamilton and Medland of Gloucester, altered 1863-1866 by William Burges, chancel restored 1869 by J. Middleton of Cheltenham. Chancel; sandstone buttresses, north wall and east end blue lias, south wall coursed blue lias. Nave; coursed blue lias. Porch; coursed squared and dressed limestone. Tower; blue lias on north and south, sandstone on west, buttresses and stair-vice sandstone. Red tile and stone slate roof. Plan: nave with projecting south porch and north aisle, chancel with vestry/organ chamber on north, west tower. Diagonal buttress to chancel. Chancel south wall; early studded plank door within pointed flat-chamfered opening left. Clamp and diagonal buttresses to north aisle; triangular east window with tracery and moulded hood with head stops. Two-light pointed belfry windows with Decorated tracery, on each face of tower. Buttressed nave; Eroded C12 hood with segmental section forming arc over door with beast-head stops (q.v. beasts heads at Church of St. Mary, Deerhurst) and roundels, beaded bands linking roundels with beaded outlines, grotesque-head keystone. Plastered interior; 5-bay C19 nave arcade with pointed arches on octagonal piers. C13 double-chamfered tower arch without capitals Cusped C19 timber chancel arch supported on large stone corbels with carved stone figures of St. Peter and St.John. Roof of nave plastered Biblical scenes and symbols of the apostles set in roundels on each face. Circular stone pulpit designed by Middleton in south-east Monuments in chancel; limestone ledger in front of mensa with inscription in capitals to ------- Underhill, son of John Underhill, died 1647. Two ledgers to Charles Dowdeswell of Forthampton Court, died 1647, right and left of mensa. Five marble monuments to members of the Yorke family Face of winged cherub at bottom. Five ledgers along centre of aisle, one to Hopewell Hayward, died 1722 with heraldic shield at top, another to Maria Hayward, wife of Hopewell, died 1746 and other members of the Hayward family (q.v. Vine Farm and Southfield House). Monument above pier of aisle arcade to John Raiseil, died 1631, finely carved and painted blue lias, inscription in gold lettering, depiction of recumbent skeleton below, narrow panel either side with hanging ribbon decoration incorporating skull and cross-bones.

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Longitude: -2.2072860

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