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	<title>Midland Churches</title>
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	<description>A Photographic Record of Parish Churches</description>
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		<title>Farnborough &#8211; St. Botolph.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stratford-upon-Avon District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warwickshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[botolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[g.g. scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wailes]]></category>

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Built fron coursed ironstone St. Botolph is mosty in the Decorated style with a C14 nave, chancel, porch and lower part of tower. However an earlier C12 building was once on the site as can be seen from the reused south doorway, and the chancel arch. The upper part of the tower is dated 1611.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staverton &#8211; St. Mary the Virgin.</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2010/01/14/staverton-st-mary-the-virgin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Daventry District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Northamptonshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monument]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
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Early C14 in the Perpendicular style also with Perpendicular C14 tower and a Decorated style C15 North chapel. The building is made of coursed ironstone and ironstone ashlar.
  
The east window is an unusual composition featuring the Annunciation and Crucifixion by Burlison &#38; Grylls of London. Two of the windows in the South [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Churchover &#8211; Holy Trinity.</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2009/12/27/churchover-holy-trinity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rugby District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warwickshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monument]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
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Largely rebuilt in 1896 by the architect Bassett Smith in C14 style. Holy Trinity retains some features from C13 particularly the door and bay arches in the south aisle. The tower is C15 and built from Lias Limestone.
A large part of the manor of Churchover was owned by Kennilworth Priory the rents amounting to £4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Badby &#8211; St. Mary.</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2009/11/14/badby-st-mary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Daventry District]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
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An early C14 church with the addition of a clerestory in C15. The tower rebuilt in the C18.
At the beginning of the C11 Badby and the neighbouring village of Newnham belonged to Evesham Abbey. After the dissolution of Evesham Abbey in 1539, the manor that comprised Badby and Newnham was given to Edmund Knightley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breedon on the Hill &#8211; St Mary and St Hardulph</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leicestershire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North West Leicestershire District]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[chellaston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
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This parish church was formerly the church of an Augustinian Priory founded early C12. Formally a fortified hilltop a monastery was established there by the C7. The first Abbot Hedda became the second bishop of Lichfield in 691. 
The monastery was destroyed by the Danes and not re-established until the foundation of the Augustinian Priory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Misterton &#8211; St. Leonard.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Harborough District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leicestershire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elizabethan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font alabaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jacobean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leonard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
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The parish church of St. Leonard is mostly a C14 building with a broached spire on the west tower.
 
  
The early C14 south aisle window has Victorian stained glass and is dated 1878. The stained glass in the east window is Victorian.
  
The octagonal font is also C19 as are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willoughby &#8211; St. Nicholas.</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2009/07/13/willoughby-st-nicholas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Rugby District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warwickshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts and crafts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caroline Townshend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicholas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war memorial]]></category>

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St. Nicholas parish church has a Decorated style (C14) west tower, the remainder of the church is in the Perpendicular style of the mid C15. The chancel was rebuilt in the early C19 and is of brick rendered in cement to imitate limestone ashlar blocks.
 
The red sandstone font is from the early C13, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lyddington &#8211; St. Andrew.</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2009/06/24/lyddington-st-andrew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Leicestershire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rutland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rood screen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
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The parish church of St. Andrew stands next to the Bede House which in 1602 housed 12 bedesmen (those employed to pray for the soul of their benefactor) and two women, all free of lunacy, leprosy or the French pox. The house itself is C15 and a former Palace of the Bishops of Lincoln.
St. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burton Dassett &#8211; All Saints</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2009/06/16/burton-dassett-all-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stratford-upon-Avon District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warwickshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fresco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[norman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tower]]></category>

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The Domesday book records that there was a small Saxon church occupying this site where the current nave is. At that time the land was owned by the saxon Lord Harold of Sudeley who mainly owned land in Gloucestershire.
The present church is built of Hornton stone and dates from the early C12 through to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middleton Cheney &#8211; All Saints.</title>
		<link>http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches/2009/05/15/middleton-cheney-all-saints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 23:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Northamptonshire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Northamptonshire District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burne-jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corbel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decorative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[font]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ford maddox brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[g.g. scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perpendicular]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philip webb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulpit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roof]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stained glass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tomb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[william morris]]></category>

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The west tower is around 150ft high. The south doorway is original of c1300, and most of the windows are of the Geometrical Gothic style of the same period, but they were renewed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1865.
  
The painted roof has Perpendicular style head corbels.
  
The Perpendicular style [...]]]></description>
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