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St Mary and St Lawrence's Church, Stratford Tony

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Reference no.
  
1181901

Designated as world heritage site
  
23 March 1960

Built
  
13th century

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Location
  
Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England

St Mary & St Lawrence's Church in Stratford Tony, Wiltshire, England, was built in the 13th century. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was declared redundant on 1 October 1984, and was vested in the Trust on 26 March 1986.

The stone and flint church is on the banks of the River Ebble and accessed down a narrow lane, then across a stream and up a steep bank on foot. The chancel dates from the 14th, but was built on the site of an earlier church. The tower is from the 15th, while the nave was rebuilt in the 18th century. The three-stage west tower has a pyramidal tiled roof and is supported by diagonal buttresses. Around the church walls are a collection of gargoyles.

The interior of the church includes a 14th-century font and box pews with colonnaded tops. The stained glass in the east window was installed by the studio of Charles Eamer Kempe in 1884. The stalls and pews are from the 17th century. Memorials include a marble plaque to George Taunton and a wall tablet to Elizabeth Hill who died in 1715.

In 2012 Loyd Grossman, who is the chairman of the Churches Conservation Trust, visited the church and presented certificates yo local school children who had researched the history of the church.

There is a large Yew tree in the churchyard with a girth of over 11 feet (3.4 m). Among the graves and tombs in the churchyard is a chest tomb to Anthony Bradbury who dies in 1845.

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St Mary & St Lawrence's Church, Stratford Tony Wikipedia


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