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Mill Lane, BATH, BA2 0EH

St Mary's church dates from possibly Norman times, although the current building was created in 1826. The surprisingly warm previous year and the fairly kind winter thus far has allowed the snowdrops and crocuses a quick start. See Image] for more.

Looking at the church from the path that runs by it.

Not for the first time, my very early Explorer sheet from the 90s misled me into thinking there was a pub here. Clearly Dray Cottage (centre), by the junction of Church Hill (left) and South Road, was once a pub (originally the New Inn but later the Guss and Crook https://www.flickr.com/photos/77751183@N07/33347771205 ), but is now a clock restorer's.

This was originally the New Inn, one of Timsbury's oldest pubs. In recent times it was renamed the Guss and Crook but that did not stop it closing. Today a clock and antiques business enjoys the fine view over the Cam Brook valley. See Image] for a benchmark on the nearest corner.

This cutmark is listed in the Benchmark Database - see http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/bm64180 . It was made on what was the New Inn some time back in the late nineteenth century, but see Image] for the current use of this building.

Prtty much the view in Image, at a slightly wider angle. The grade II* listed church dates from "1826-32, east end of 1852 by Sir George G. Scott" https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1129594 .

Timsbury has its origins somewhere in Anglo-Saxon times, but there appears to have been some form of place of worship by Domesday. Certainly, by the late thirteenth century a church was established for the little gathering of houses and farms here. One of the local lords of the manor, Sir Barnaby Samborne (standard bearer to Elizabeth I), was enshrined in the churchyard and somehow evaded the destructive efforts of the Puritans. However, the church found more trouble with general dilapidation and the lot had to be demolished in 1820. It was rebuilt in 1826 based on designs by no less a luminary than Sir George Gilbert Scott; side aisles were added in 1852. See Image] for more views.

A distinctive flat-roofed brick house just above the former Guss and Crook pub; both are visible in Image