St Mary Monnington-on-Wye

 

St Mary at Monnington on Wye was the second of the churches I needed to visit and the drive proved further than I expected not helped by the fact I drove past the entrance to start with then wondered if I had gone wrong again when I found I was driving throught the Bulmers cider orchards ending up along the drive leading to the House, lucky some one nearby put me right and I quickly drove back a few hundred yards and parked near the footpath leading to the church where I found the Lychgate to the churchyard 

The church of St Mary's is a grade I listed building. Kilverts sister was married to the vicar here so he was a  regular visitor. I did find some history on the National Churches Trust 

The church stands alone near the cider orchards, the grass brown from lack of rain here we look from the south west

Best viewing the church from the north east side

 

The east end of the church with part of the church yard grass cut

 

 The porch

Chest tombs in the churchyard looking towards the lychgate

Three crosses marking a family group

There are a lot of tombs and headstones to see in the churchyard for such a small place

Most of the churchyard grass is left to grow

Collage of some old headstones 

Commonwealth war grave of Private T Gammond

The porch around the north side of the church

Inside the sturdy door

The inside of St Mary from behind the font

Looking from in front of the font, I not the pew end all have arm rests on them

The screen splitting off the chancel from the nave

The chancel from behind the altar rails

The altar is a plain wooden table with wood panel screen on the east wall

Looking back to the nave from behind the screen

The pulpit with a colorful flower display beside it

Looking down to the nave

The nave does have some floor tombs

Drawing of of the church on display

The most colorful royal coat of arms I have seen to date, this one is Charles the II

This monument stands out in the church

 

The monument is to the memory of Fran Perrott who I can find nothing on

Uvedall Tomkyns son to Sir Thomas

Other tombs nearby had the inscriptions lost

Quiet a few other memorials to see

 

Small organ 

 

The only lighting comes from Oil lamps

which are all around the church and hanging from the ceiling 

 

Beautifully hand written Roll of Honour 

Back to the font and it is dated 1680

Last look from the font

The prayer was on the lectern on the pulpit.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful weekend 

St Peter & St Paul Whitney-on-Wye

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Peter & St Paul Whitney-on-Wye  in the second of his tour of the churches Francis Kilvert visited. The church is easy enough to find being set back off the main road along a track where you see rather nice Lychgate leading you to the churchyard and church beyond. The history came of the parish website. This was the first of seven churches on the Clerics trail I visited on this day.

This peaceful little church was built in 1740 to replace one which was destroyed by the River Wye. It contains treasures from the old church including the medieval east window and the old font probably 12th century. The beautiful stained glass windows are also well worth a look. The tower houses the original five bells which have been in situ since the church was built and are still in regular use today. The Revd. Francis Kilvert was a regular visitor both to the church and to his dear friend Revd. Henry Dew.

The church is always open for visitors to enjoy the peace and tranquillity.

 Path taking you to the church

 

The tower with door

South west aspect of the church

Going around to look from the north west

 Then north east across the churchyard

 

East end of the church

 Along the second path

 

Churchyard south of the church looking west

East end looking north 

North side looking east

 From the north side of the churchyard looking south

 

 Collage of headstones and Hope family monument

 

South west of the church

The blocked priest door make beautiful war memoial 

Inside looking down the aisle

 

 

Inside the chancel

 

 

The altar and carved reredos screen bhind

 

Altar cross and flower vases 

Looking back through the chancel arch

Phone photos of the altar

East window showing the calming of the red sea

Top of  the altar and screen

Closer view of the altar

 

The nave form by the pulpit

Pulpit and lectern 

Closer view of the pulpit showing the carving on it

 

 

 Looking down from the pulpit

Kneelers on the pews

There is a fare bit of stained glass to see, St Peter & St Paul

I think there are two different scenes here

Pretty sure this is the wedding feast at Cana 

St George and St Mary the blessed virgin 

Some of the memorials

 

I should have taken a photo of the statue

But I managed a crop to show L/Cpl A.L.Lewis VC. It is not often you come across someone who was awarded the Victoria Cross

Memorial to Armine Styleman Furlonge

Memorials in the corner of the chancel 

One I did not realise till after was that of Henry Dew who befriended Kilvert

Memorial to Armine Roderick Dew

List of the vicars of the church

The font which was no doubt saved from the old church

Organ

And the back of the church under the balcony

You did not think I would miss out going up for a photo did you

I will leave with this photo of I The Millennium tree Planted 28/10/2000 by Hazel Rayner.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week