moss wrote:
How depressing. Old churches, even rebuild churches hold so much history for anyone who has the time to look. I have friends who 'don't do churches' and I used to feel like that myself. I visited a church earlier this week whilst out walking in south Wiltshire (as you wisely advise I won't name it) - it had a Saxon stone similar, though smaller, to the one in your link. It had been part of a Saxon cross and is now cemented into the wall of the current church building. There was also a very fine early Norman font there - which tend not get stolen as are too heavy.
Its always a pleasure to find an unlocked village church, holding the history of the community often dating back over 1000 years.
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