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Cheltenham Road, CIRENCESTER, GL7 7FA

This sheepwash was restored in 1994 by members of the Cotswold Voluntary Warden Service. 132 have been recorded in the Cotswold AONB - see http://www.lhi.org.uk/docs/WASHPOOL_LEAFLET_2.pdf

Part of the car park for Cirencester Golf Course may be seen to the right of the road in this view looking southwards.

Grade II Listed former school house and school room. http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-131054-the-old-school-house-baunton-gloucesters Built on an 'L'-shaped plan of coursed squared and dressed Cotswold limestone, with a stone slate roof with ashlar and artificial stone chimney stacks, it consists of a two-storey school house (right) with single-storey school room (left) adjoining at right angles. All of the windows are 2-light, stone-mullioned casements with diamond leaded panes. The gable of the school house has an off-centre gabled porch, and there is a similar porch for the school room. Each porch has a Tudor-arched doorway; the shield above that of the school room is initialled and dated 'J. M. 1849' while that of the school house is blank. Each porch gable and the south-facing gable of the school house has stepped coping, roll-cross saddles (the decorative stones at their apex), and triangular kneelers (the large stones at the foot of the gable). The school house porch is now blocked, with a 2-light casement inserted into the blocking.

Towards Cirencester.

Small Norman chancel arch of St Mary Magdalene church in Baunton.

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.

Chancel of St Mary Magdalene church in Baunton.

View along the nave to the small Norman chancel arch of St Mary Magdalene church in Baunton.

Wall painting of St Christopher on the north wall of Mary Magdalene church, Baunton.