The Vale of Pewsey Team
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Team Churches
Northern Cluster
Southern Cluster
South-west Cluster
North-west Cluster
Eastern Cluster
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Welcome to Upavon
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Random thought.... "He who laughs last thinks slowest!" Check out the Bishop of Ramsbury's team blog here.... http://www.crossramsbury.net/
Follow the links below to see today's daily prayer provided by the official
Church of England web site,© The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England, 2002-2010.
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St Mary, UpavonA Guide to the ChurchThe present building is largely the result of 15th and 19th Century restorations but it is on the foundations of the late Norman church (circa 1175) which stood on this site. The Norman church replaced an earlier wooden Saxon church. Norman Features - Part of the Chancel walls. The buttresses and bricked-up windows at the east end are part of the original building. Also the bricked-up priests’ door in the north wall of the Chancel and the window in the north wall of the sanctuary. Chancel Arch(see below). Bowl of Font (on 19th Century base.) Chancel - Walls basically Norman. Note Priests’ door and rounded window on north side. 13th Century Piscina (for washing communion vessels) in south wall. Walls partly rebuilt in 15th Century with east and south windows replacing earlier ones. Sedalia (seat for clergy) under south window date from this period. 17th Century carved altar table. 19th Century stained glass and tiled floor. Chancel Arch - The stonework, with its zig-zag tracery, is original late Norman. Some believe it is the original shape, although the usual Norman arch is round. Others suggest that the original round arch was rebuilt in its present form in the 15th Century. The present triple arch is unusual. The two side arches extend beyond the inside line of the Chancel walls on the Nave side, becoming pointed arches of half width on the Chancel face. Nave - North and south arcades, built in the early 13th Century, do not match. The easternmost arch of the north arcade seems to have been formed later by cutting through a solid wall. The arcades were followed by the original north and south aisles and main part of the tower. Floor tiles possibly 15th Century. Roof 19th Century. Aisles - South aisle later demolished, arches built in and windows added. Present north aisle is a restoration using the old foundations. The long connection with the RAF may be seen from the memorial tablets. Porch - Rebuilt at some time, but arch original 13th Century.
Font - Norman bowl on 19th Century base. Octagonal form with the following emblems:
Tower - Entered by a lofty arch with stone benches around its base extending to the Nave walls. Lower two stages of Tower built late 13th Century. Bells - Five Bells recast and rehung 1910. Sixth presented in the same year by John Humphrey of Addlestone. External - Construction of flint with stone - mostly in courses or patterned. Note Norman buttresses on east wall and bricked-up windows of east wall and door in north wall of Chancel. Fine Tower of massive construction and unusually broad dimensions. Lower two stages late 13th Century. Final stage below parapet added later (not such fine workmanship.) Parapet added in 15th Century. North face of tower and staircase turret is continuous. Coffin lid lying near west door is as old as the tower. On south-west buttress of Tower are remains of two scratch dials for telling times of services. Church Wardens
Mr Pat Turner
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