2020 Review Pt2

 

The second part of my review of 2020. Even with the restrictions we had with Covid19 I managed to visit around 28 churches and went inside most of them which were open. At  the moment I have no chance of visiting any more for a while, at least until the we are taken out of lockdown and I get a vaccination so we will see what I can come up with. I have had one suggestion which I will look into writing up.  I ended Part1 when I reached the end of June so now  I'll start in July.

 The first church was St Laurence South Hinksey one church I have wanted to visit for a while, unfortunately the place was locked but I hope to return sometime.

 

My visit to St Peter & Paul Stokenchurch was literally a last minute visit. My son had to go there, so while he was  doing what he went for I popped down the road to the local church, I even got the chance to look inside which was a bonus. I will go back when I get a chance as I want to get a photo of a war grave I missed

St Faith Shellingford was my next visit and I did not regret going there as I chatted to an old fellow who was cutting the grass and had lived in the village all his life. The church was also open and one I did like looking around

August saw me at St Denny Stanford in the Vale a beautiful looking church which unfortunately was locked a return visit is needed here

St Mary Longworth has been on my list for a while and I finally got to visit this superb church 

In September I published  St Andrew Bradfield which was now redundant Bradfield collage were in the process of purchasing the building. I visited back in January and I had hopes of seeing inside and would have if it were not for some obnoxious churchwarden who was unhelpful even though the Church Commission had asked him to. They then offered me the chance of coming along with them for a final visit but the covid virus put pay to that and I never had a chance to see inside. It is a nice looking church just a shame it was sold, the church that looks after the parish now is not one I will be visiting

St Peter Charney Basset took two weeks to publish with the first visit on a wet day and fining the church was locked. The second week I visited on the day it was open and was pleased to see a wonderful little church

St Mary Great Milton ended the month and covered two weeks because I found when the church was open and came back to take photos of the inside 

The second week of October I published St Peter Great Hasley  which took two weeks to take photos of as well, lucky is is not far from Great Milton so It was taken in at the same time

St James Little Milton was on the way home from the last two churches, I found out it was open so took the opportunity to see that as well.

St James the Great Denchworth ended October and is a beautiful looking church just a shame it was shut. Another church which will need a return visit

As the first Sunday in November was Rememberer day I thought it would be good to feature some of the many Rolls of Honour that I have seen in the Churches I have visited 

All Saints Goosy  I visited after going to Denchworth. It is a small Church with a churchyard that is large but has few headstones. The church was locked but I do intend to revisit when I can 

It was back into West Berkshire for the next two churches starting with St Mary Shaw a Victorian church built where an older one used to be. Sad to say it was locked because of the pandemic

St Mark Cold Ash ended November, another new looking Victorian church though this one did not have ant previous history at all. I was not disappointed when I found it locked.

I went in to December showing a church that I had bloged little bits about but never really featured.      St Marys Cholsey.  I have also started a second blog on the interior but it will have to wait till I go inside for some more photos 

I managed to visit two more near Oxford in December the first was St Mary Garsington. A really nice looking church I would love to have gone inside but for the fact the roof was being repaired due to the lead flashing being stolen. Hopefully after lockdown.

All Saints Cuddeston Was the last church to be featured in 2020 and what a beautiful church it was, what's more it was open so I was able to finish the year with some internal views.  I had hoped to get out for a couple more but with what was going on with the pandemic I felt it better not to, that all went out the window when the government locked the country down after Christmas. It was an interesting year during which I did manage to visit around 30 churches. What this year will bring I cannot see but hopefully I will get visit some more and at least take photos of the outside.

Till next time stay take care and stay safe