St Mary Magdalene Shipon

 

This is a return visit to this church but will be a full blog rather than just show the inside of the church which was the reason for going back, I'm grateful to the churchwarden for being so accommodating and allowing me to get the photos You can read the original blog I wrote on St Mary Magdalene Shippon in the link

 The only history |I can find is The parish church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1855 to a design of Gilbert Scott. not a great deal but I did find out that Sippon was a Manor owned by Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution in 1538. It was then acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall, which still owns it

St Mary's from the roadside

 

The west end of the church looking from the churchyard

Going around the South side

East end with the bell cote poking up

North west view

South west end of the church

North west side

A few of the older headstones by the east side boundary wall

 

Family tombs which can be seen at  the east end of the church

 

Looking west along the south side of the church

 

Couple of family plots near the church hall

 

Small garden of remembrance for someone 

 

 Commonwealth War Grave of Private F.R Bosbury

 

Broken memorial on the south side of the church

 

The tombs are so similar I think they are related

Family tomb and monument

 

The war memorial near the porch

 

Inside looking down the nave

 

Chancel arch

 

Chancel with choir stall either side

 

Getting near the altar from the choir stalls

 

Altar and east window

 

The altar 

 

East window

The nave looking from the chancel arch

 

Pulpit typical Victorian version

 

Nave looking down from the pulpit

 

The vestry is behind the partition

 

The partition is covered in RAF squadron shields 

 

A Collage showing the various Squadrons that were stationed at RAF Abingdon

 

Flags which can be see in the chancel arch

 

The collage shows a reminder of the RAF

 

Roll of honour from WWI the names hand carved in the plaque

 

Bernard Aldwinckle remembered on this memorial

 

Memorial of Flight Sergeant J Wilkinson

 

War memorial of the Parachute training school based at RAF Abingdon

 

This beautiful stained glass window can be seen in the nave

 

A reminder of RAF Abingdon above the window

 

Another stunning modern window which is in the nave

 

Memorial window to Albert Salsbury

 

You an also see this lovely paining of the church

 

Memorial to member of the Aldwinckle family

 

One of the chancel arch corbels 

 

Over at the north west end of the church these panels can be seen either side of the window

 

I will say goodby with this view of the fond and church in the background.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week

All Saints Marcham

 

I will say before I start that I have visited All Saints Marcham before back in around 2010 but I only wrote the blog on it in 2017. The photos I took inside were not what I would use on a blog today so I had the chance to revisit the church and take some more photos and write a new blog rather than hash the old one, I might add that next weeks church is also a revisit only this time to see inside the church

"The oldest parts of the Church of England Parish Church of All Saints are 13th-century, including the west tower and probably the font. The south doorway is Perpendicular Gothic from either the late 14th or early 15th century. Also Perpendicular are the timber roof of the nave and the 15th-century doorway to the west tower. The church was heavily rebuilt in 1837. It is a Grade II* listed building. The tower has a ring of six bells. James Wells of Aldbourne, Wiltshire, cast the second, fourth, fifth and tenor bells in 1816. Charles and George Mears of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the treble bell in 1855. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry also cast or recast the third bell in 1988."

^{South east from the churchyard}

^{East end of the church showing the two chapels}

^{North west looking at the tower}

^{Bell Tower with buttresses}

 ^{Looking up the tower}

^{Wide angle view of the north side of the church}

^{South west view of the church}

 View looking up the path to the south side of the church

^{Churchyard south of the church}

^{Looking west}

^{West again towards a meeting area}

^{Collage of headstones}

^{Looking east beside the church}

^{Over to the south side of the churchyard looking east}

^{Couple of coffin tombs one which still has head and foot stones}

^{Looking west south of the church to the meeting area}

Graves north side of the church

 

The porch

 

Statue of Jesus in an alcove above the entrance

The beautiful Perpendicular Gothic south doorway

Inside looking to the altar

The altar

Closer view showing the floral display

 

I managed to go in the left hand chapel which is now a vestry to get a photo of the stained glass window

In there is this Roll of Honour

In the right hand chapel is this Stained glass window

Collage of the panels on the window

^{There are a couple of memorials in the chapel}

^{Both to the Duffield family}

^{Looking to the organ loft from the altar}

^{The organ loft which was locked so I could not get a photo from it}

Collage of memorials to the Floyd family

 

The pulpit 

The pulpit was full of electronic equipment for the sound system so this the best I can do for a view from it

^{The pews I am glad to see are retained}

^{A clerks desk}

This looked to be the oldest memorial dated 1675

 

Couple of brasses now mounted on wood plus a royal coat of arms you can see

 

^{Thornhill memorial}

^{Memorial and bequest of Mr John Barnes who must have been rich to give that amount}

 

Bunce memorial

 

These memorials  are on the west wall of the church and may have been on the floor at some time

Eagle lecturn

^{Carving on one of the pillars}

The font which is probably one of the older things in the church

 

I will leave you with this photo which was take n the right hand chapel

Till Next time may I wish you all a peaceful week