The last time I visited St Mary Garsington was back in December 2020 when they were repairing the roof where the lead had been stolen. I have waited to return since then and after emailing the church warden found out the church was open on Wednesday with the church at Horsepath open most days. It was time to revisit so I planed to get to visit both churches
The photos were taken with both iPhone and Canon EOS R6
You notice this sign as you walk in the gate
Above the entrance to the porch this old lamp hangs, I could not get a good shot of it last time
The church looks a lot nicer with out the scaffolding that was along the sides
Walk in the door and you look across to the north aisle
Here we look down the nave towards the chancel
Walking down the nave a bit to view the chancel arch and chancel
The centre dominated by this candle on holder
Going into the chancel
The altar with screen panelling at the back
Closer view of the altar top and screen
The centre of the screen showing a carving of the crucifixion
Above this beautiful stained glass window
Looking back through the chancel arch towards the nave
One of the sets of choir stalls
In front of the chancel looking down the nave aisle
The pulpit on the right hand side of the chancel arch when you look at the altar
Looking down from the pulpit towards the nave and north aisle
Turning around to the chancel
Into the south aisle
And across to the organ
Lecturn
This view of the nave and south aisle is from the lectern in the photo above
Part of the north aisle is given over for the youngest of the parishioners
One of the windows in the south aisle which is typical of the others in the church
The Malbon memorial dating from 1788, the brass on is from the 20th century
The Wickham memorial
This one is in Latin
This one is getting a little faded
Elizabeth Morrell
I noticed this one under a carpet where the children's area is
The font with it's huge cover
Altar cross in a window
This broken memorial beside it
Where you can find the village Roll of Honour
Showing the fallen from both wars
Beside the altar in the south aisle is this brass which looks like it was lifted from the floor, the couple had a busy life having five boys and five girls
The south aisle altar
This rather nice carved chair is by the main altar in the chancel
Looking around the roof you see carved angels
on the corbels
with the bible on it
The candle with chancel behind
I will leave you with the flower display at the base of the font.
Till next time stay safe and have a beautiful weekend
11 comments:
A beautiful interior.
All that beautiful skilled work
I remember your last post and the impressive yew trees in the churchyard. I'm glad you could go inside at last. There are many beautiful features to look at such as the carvings in wood and stone and the words on memorials give an insight into the people mentioned. Thank you for sharing Bill. Have a good week.
There are so many interesting deltails in your post. Very beautiful & peaceful church.
It is beautiful!
Yes it was indeed
Certainly is
So was I it just took a while
Yes it was peaceful
I have to agree on that
Hi Bill,
You have an amazing blog here. After looking over your photos of St Mary Garsington Pt 2 ... for someone who is curious about this church, the Church Explorer is the next best thing to actually being there. It seems like a Google search for St Mary Garsington should have your blog post near the top of the results. Just a wonderful post. Thanks for sharing!
John
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