The Cotswold Guide
A view of St Mary's Church
Church · Bibury, Gloucestershire

St Mary's Church

An exceptionally complete Anglo-Saxon and Norman church; the casts of its chancel arch are in the V&A.

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An exceptionally complete Anglo-Saxon and Norman church; the casts of its chancel arch are in the V&A.

In Bibury

William Morris's favourite village, famous for the weavers' cottages of Arlington Row and a working trout farm on the Coln.

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Gallery

  • The east window of St Mary's, Bibury — Gothic tracery seen from the churchyard
  • The tower wall of St Mary's with an iron lamp bracket and lantern
  • Red roses in the churchyard with the church beyond
  • Looking up the nave at St Mary's — timbered roof, pale stone arches and the chancel beyond
  • The east window above the altar — three-light stained glass with an embroidered altar frontal beneath
  • A large stained-glass window in the south aisle of St Mary's, with regimental flags hung alongside
  • The brass eagle lectern in St Mary's, with a Gothic window beyond
  • A silhouette war-memorial figure with a poppy wreath beside a 1939–1945 names plaque

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The watermeadow between the row and the river, named for the wooden racks where wool once dried.

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