All Saints Coleshill

 

 Must admit this church was on it's own in my list to visit I could not link it up on a visit with any other churches in the area so the other week I bit the bullet and went along to have a look. I found a church that was worth visiting. Some history of Wikipedia:-

 "The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of All Saints are late 12th-century; other parts are 13th-century and the tower is 15th-century. The building was refashioned in the 18th century and restored by Street. In 1708 Abraham I Rudhall of Gloucester cast a ring of five bells for the west tower. In 1884 Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry recast the third bell. In 1938 Mears and Stainbank cast a new treble bell to increase the ring to six. All Saints is a Grade II* listed building"

 

An old preaching cross base stands on the green in front of the church

 

View of the church from the road looking over the wall

 

Going through the gate into the churchyard

 

 

The church looking down the path

 

 

The porch with a window over the top which mean a room in there

 

 

Looking up at the tower

 The steps lead of the roadside and go to west end entrance

 

View of the west end and bell tower  

 

The best I can do getting a photo of the north side which is a stitch of two photo.

Going to the far east end to get this view

The east end window which is one of the most unusual ones I have seen yet

Moving around south to see the south aisle chapel

South side with the few tombs in the foreground

 

 

As you walk in the churchyard look east to see the headstones and tombs

 

 Walking along  further look west to see the churchyard to the boundary road

 

 Turn back east towards the far wall

 

 

South you see the road through the village

 

A Gargoyle looks down from the roof, this one seems to have two heads

 

north west from the path

 

East on the north side of the church

I only noticed the bird photo bombing after I downloaded the photo

South across the east end

CWWG war grave of Private C.W.F.Bond

Selection of Tombs near the church on the south side

The porch which has a doorway in the same shape as the east window

First view after coming through the door and you are faced with the font and it's huge cover

Nave looking down to the chancel

 

 

Chancel with the altar and east window

 

Altar rails

 

 

Closer look at the altar and the east window

 

 

The beautiful east window of an unusual design

Back though the chancel arch and into the nave

 

The pulpit which is wrought iron

 

Looking down to the nave

 

Turning around to the chancel

 

There are a couple of beautiful memorials in the chancel

 

Detail is superb with a cameo of the couple showing

 

The skull is so detailed

 

The inscription on the base

 

Nearby another impressive memorial

 

This one with the effigies of Sir Henry Pratt and his wifestands out beside the altar

 

The detail is beautiful

 

The lady underneath looks up

 

Her face has incredible detail

 

One of the memorials which is dulled with age

 

This one is a little cleaner

 

Lectern

 

This was a chapel which was founded in 1499

 

It has a beautiful stained glass window in it

 

On the wall you will see this cross from the war gave of Jacob Edward Pleydell Bouyerie.

 

 

At the back this framed print telling you the chapel was built for Agnes Pleydell

Under is the effigy of Alice Playdell

The pews were build almost hiding her resting place

Playdell memorial 

A staff with cross on top with the font in the background

I mentioned the window in the porch which meant a room there, well it gave light to the balcony area which may have been a room in the past

I could not find out if it was at some time. You can access it but due to H&S not at the moment

I will leave you with this shot of a floral display 

Till Next time have a Peaceful weekend

St Margaret Binsey

 

 After my visit to Wytham I got a text from my son telling me he would be a while longer so I decided to go to visit St Margaret's Church in Binsey which I have long wanted to see. Odd thing is a long time ago I had bee to the Perch public house not far away and never realised the church was there. The think that put me off visiting was the traffic you got along the Botley road into Oxford, as it was there was little. Some history off Wikipedia:-

" Binsey's most noted feature is the parish church of St Margaret, set at some distance north of the surviving houses. It dates from the 12th century and is a Grade I Listed Building. Its fame lies mostly in that just outside its west end and belltower stands St Margaret's Well, a Grade II Listed Building, which is the model for Lewis Carroll’s ‘Treacle Well’ from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; this is a holy well dedicated to St Frideswide, patron saint of Oxford. According to legend, she fled to Binsey in a bid to escape marriage to a king of Mercia, whose pursuit of her was halted when he was struck blind at the gates of Oxford. Frideswide's prayers brought forth a healing spring, whose waters cured his blindness, and the spring was walled into a shallow well which became a focus for pilgrimage, the mediaeval sense of the word ‘treacle’ meaning ‘healing unguent’. The well became a pilgrimage site in mediaeval times"

 

 

 

St Margaret from along the churchyard

Your first view of the churchyard with St Margaret over to the right

 

Looking right you see the path leading to the porch

Going around to the south west of the church to get a view of of the church, there is no access around the north of east side of the church. 

 

This is the north side of the church

 

 

 

St Margaret's Well which is at the west end of the church

 

This is a much as you can see of the east end of the church

The church looking west

 

The east end window

 

You churchyard is not large as you can see from the entrance

The churchyard looking from the south of the church

Looking west from the path

 

 

Couple of older headstones
 

The headstone looks old but dates back to 1970 

 

The porch with the door closed but I was pleased to find it opened

 

 inside this gem of an arch

Here we look down the nave to the chancel

Chancel arch with the altar 

The altar with altar rails

The altar table

The east window that looks to have bits of medieval glass intermingled

 

 This panel looks a little lost by the wall in the chancel

 

 turning around to look back through the chancel arch

 

 Looking back through the nave

The pulpit over to the right of the chancel arch

 

which does give a nice view of the nave

 

 The opposite side of the arch is this lectern

Giving a lower view down the church

 

The roof looks more than interesting with the beams and trusses holding it up

The font is at the back of the church beneath the west window

 with these stained glass panels in it

 

one of the first things you notice is there are no electric lights, it is lit by oil lamps

Behind  is one of the memorials on the walls

The memorial seems to be members of the Prickett family

This sunlit one to the Tawney Family

This royal coat of arms looks to belong to Queen Ann though it is quite faded. Never come across one of this queens before.

There are a few tombs in the floor

 

This one is the Smith family

The niche in the corner of the chancel was used for holy water at sometime

Small organ over in another corner

Loved the way the light shone on the old Christmas Decorations

On a window sill a statue of St Margaret beside a vase of tulips

Had to get a photo of the bible on the pulpit

 

 

I will leave you with this plaque I saw beside a tree in the churchyard.

Till Next time I which you all a peaceful weekend

Take Care