View S of Vicarage & Parish Church of St Mary, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK: a mainly Perpendicular church on the site of a Saxon minster.
View S of the Vicarage & Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hawkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, UK: a mainly Perpendicular church of the C14th & C15th, founded in the C12th on the site of a Saxon church. Probably one of Gloucestershire's original minster churches. The future Bishop of Worcester, St Wulstan, served here 1033-38: as he preached he was overcome by the smell of a goose cooking for his dinner in a house possibly on the site of the present vicarage to the E (L). Realising his senses had overcome his duty to God he became a vegetarian. The C15th west tower is of six stages with diagonal buttresses, & a stair turret at the SE topped by a spirelet. The nave & tower are embattled. The C13th chancel has a Cotswold stone slate roof. The church is surrounded by clipped yews & around 170 marked graves including 87 chest tombs, some groups of which are Grade II Listed.
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Location: St Mary the Virgin's Church, Hawkesbury, Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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