Saturday 2 October 2021

St Mary Garsington Pt2

 

 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

Lady Ottoline Morrell who turned out to be a different person to who I thought she was.

The south aisle

 
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

 
a brass lectern

 
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:

William Kendall said...

A beautiful interior.

gz said...

All that beautiful skilled work

Linda P said...

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.

riitta k said...

There are so many interesting deltails in your post. Very beautiful & peaceful church.

Linda said...

It is beautiful!

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Yes it was indeed

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Certainly is

Billy Blue Eyes said...

So was I it just took a while

Billy Blue Eyes said...

Yes it was peaceful

Billy Blue Eyes said...

I have to agree on that

John's Island said...

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