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Friends Tour – Avon Valley Area

September 1, 2023

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St Andrew, Great Durnford
2 The Dr - Great Durnford
Events
51.144035 -1.806358

Date/Time
Date(s) - 01/09/2023
10:30 am - 4:00 pm

Location
St Andrew, Great Durnford

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  • Friends of the Trust


To be led by Michael Hodges

10:30am – St Andrew, Great Durnford
The church was altered through the thirteenth and sixteenth Centuries but what makes this church unique is it is without major Victorian restoration.  The earliest part of the church is the twelfth century nave, then came the chancel and Angelus bell tower and finally during the fifteenth and sixteenth century the porches

11:15am – St Nicholas, Wilsford
Largely an unrestored building, it dates from the 12th century although the nave and chancel are Early English, built in the 13th century. The tower was built in the fifteenth century with a quatrefoil frieze at the base, a fleur-de-lys frieze below the battlements and pierced stonework windows in the belfry

12:00pm – St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury
Large flint cruciform Grade 1 church was built for the Benedictine nuns of Amesbury. It is mainly Norman and Early English although heavily restored by Butterfield. The south aisle has a painted medieval ceiling. Some medieval glass survives

Lunch – pubs in Newton Tony, Upper or Lower Woodford, Great Durnford or Allington

2:30pm – St Nicholas, Cholderton
Based on a college chapel, with a fine medieval hammerbeam roof. Good Victorian furnishings include woodwork, Minton tiles and glass

3:15pm – St John the Baptist, Allington
The earliest parts of the building are Romanesque, largely rebuilt by ‘priest-architect’ Father William Grey (1820-72). He had the medieval font recut and kept the 16th century parish chest. He also re-used pieces of the older stonework, including a fragment of a Norman doorway on the North elevation

Please book your place on this tour with Jeremy Groom

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