St Mary Magdalene's Church - Baunton, Gloucestershire
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St Mary Magdalene's Church - Baunton, Gloucestershire
Image: © Martin Richard Phelan Taken: 1 Jul 1974
The church of St Mary Magdalene in Baunton has two things to show us from long ago. These are a 14th century wall painting of a landscape with St Christopher and a 15th century altar frontal which was returned to the church from a nearby cottage where it was being used as a table cloth. The church has its origins in the time of the Normans and has a 16th century font and a 17th century pulpit. It is one of the Cotswold churches which has no east window. North of Baunton the A417 from Driffield Crossroads Image south-east of Cirencester to Ledbury Image now flies over the A435 Cirencester – Cheltenham Road on a viaduct which came as a surprise to this Geographer in an area I had not visited for some time. The Monarch's Way runs for 625 miles by a circuitous route from Worcester to Brighton, oddly on the way passing through the Netherton canal tunnel in the Dudley area. Time photo taken not available.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.740731
Longitude
-1.969974