Where is St Mary's Church?

St Mary's Church is in Gloucestershire, the West Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode GL7 4AF), in the parish of Fairford.

How do I get to St Mary's Church?

Drivers can use postcode GL7 4AF.

Is St Mary's Church a listed building?

St Mary's Church is officially recognised as Grade I listed building listed.

Is St Mary's Church a protected site?

Yes — St Mary's Church is part of the Cotswold Water Park SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Cotswolds National Landscape (AONB).

Is St Mary's Church free to visit?

Yes, St Mary's Church is free to enter.

How do I get to St Mary's Church?

Drivers can navigate to postcode GL7 4AF. It sits within the South Cotswolds parliamentary constituency.

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St Mary's Church — church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, UK.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 30 min–1 h

Free entry

St Mary's Church is a historic church in the United Kingdom. Records date its origin to 1480. Heritage designation: Grade I listed building. Affiliated with Anglicanism. Wikidata describes it as: "church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England, UK". Coordinates: 51.7091°, -1.7821°.

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Protected designations

Site of Special Scientific Interest: Cotswold Water Park SSSI
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cotswolds

Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.

From the Wikipedia article

St Mary the Virgin is a church located in the town of Pembroke in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. The church is in the Diocese of St Davids within the Church in Wales, and members of the Anglican Communion. Since 2004, it has been a part of the Monkton Rectorial Benefice.

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Background

Architecture

Tame rebuilt the church purposely to install his stained glass, and thus the design is "necessarily somewhat cramped". The church was consecrated in 1497 by the Bishop of Worcester, within whose diocese lay most of Gloucestershire at that time. It consists of a chancel, nave, a tower between them, and two aisles, which extend without any external break to about half the length of the chancel. According to Neale "This arrangement, necessary to secure the required number of windows, somewhat injures the effect of the exterior, and makes the distinction between chancel and nave less marked than might have been wished". The entire length is 125 feet, and the breadth is 55 feet. The fittings of…

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Coordinates: 51.7091, -1.7821
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold
Parish: Fairford
Postcode: GL7 4AF
Parliamentary constituency: South Cotswolds
Established: 1480

Sources

wikidata: Q17525521 (CC0)
wikipedia: St Mary's Church, Fairford (CC BY-SA 4.0)
commons: October plenty.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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