Gloucestershire Pictures - Set 2

Symonds Yat on the River Wye

Original images by John Wilkes

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The River Wye from Symonds Yat Rock

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The Biblins Bridge on the Wye

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Damery bluebells

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Gloucester Docks

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Gloucester Cathedral

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Gloucester/Sharpness Canal at Gloucester

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'St. Cyr's' Church, Stinchcombe

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Gloucester/Sharpness Canal at Purton

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'St. Peter's' Church, Upper Slaughter

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Lower Slaughter and the Slaughter Brook

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The town sign at Northleach

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Honeysuckle near Painswick

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'St. Bartholomew's' Church, Nympsfield

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Stained glass window at Nympsfield Church

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Shipton Moyne

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'St. Mary the Virgin's' Church, Tetbury

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Interior of Tetbury Church

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'St James' Church, Ashley

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Kingscote

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Cam Long Down viewed from Coaley Peak

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'St. Mary's' Church, Frampton-on-Severn

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The Gothic Revival style 'St. Mary the Virgin's' Church, Fretherne-with-Saul

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'St. Mary's' Church, Arlingham

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'St. James' Church, Saul

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'St. Peter's' Church, Framilode

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'St. Laurence's' Church, Longney

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'St. Margaret's' Church, Whaddon

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Woodchester Villa pavement replica

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Detail of replica of 325 AD Roman pavement

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Artwork of Roman villa at Great Witcombe

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Roman soldier re-enactment, Chedworth Roman Villa

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Roman re-enactment at Chedworth

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Painting of Ebley Mill on the Stroudwater Canal in 1835

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District Council Headquarters, Ebley Mill today

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Ebley Mill and the River Frome

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Naunton

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The Jacobean/Flemish styled 'Hidcote House' at Hidcote Boyce

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'St. Eadburgha's' Church, Ebrington

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'St. Lawrence's' Church, Mickleton

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Stoutshill House, Uley

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Owlpen Manor near Uley

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'The Holy Cross' Church, Owlpen

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Owlpen Church interior

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'St. Mary's' Church, Beverston

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'All Saints' Church, Somerford Keynes

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'All Hallows' Church, South Cerney

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Drawing of South Cerney Church doorway

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The Cotswold Scarp to the North of Downham Hill

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'St. Cyr's' Church, by the Stroudwater Canal, Stonehouse

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Swan and cygnets on the Stroudwater Canal near Stonehouse

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The Stroudwater Canal and 'St. Cyr's' Church, Stonehouse

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'St. Nicholas of Myra's' Church, Ozleworth

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Boxwell Church

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'Boxwell Court'

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'St. Mary the Virgin's' Church, Upleadon

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Canal round house on the Severn and Thames Canal, Chalford

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'The Holy Trinity' Church, Minchinhampton

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'St. Stephen's' Church, Moreton Valence

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Harescombe

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Interior of Harescombe Church

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The village sign, Haresfield

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'St. Swithun's' Church, Leonard Stanley

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'St. George's' Church, King's Stanley

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'All Saints' Church, Selsley

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'St. Martin's' Church, Horsley

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Thistles on Uleybury

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'The Tyndale Monument' on Nibley Knoll

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The tower commemorates Tyndale's translation of The Bible

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'St. James the Great's' Church, Cranham

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'All Saints' Church, Bisley

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A stained glass window in Bisley Church

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Wotton-under-Edge - 'Perry and Dawes Almshouses' built in 1638

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A stained glass window in the Almshouses' Chapel, Wotton

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Downham Hill and the River Severn from Uleybury

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Lasborough

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'St. Mary the Virgin's' Church, Lasborough

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Leighterton

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'Mole Manor' underground house, Westonbirt

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A cottage garden in Bibury

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Coln Rogers

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Exterior of the Church of 'St. James the Great', Coln St. Dennis

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Interior of Coln St. Dennis Church

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'St. Mary's' Church, Fairford

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'Cerney House', North Cerney

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'All Saints' Church, North Cerney

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Exterior of 'St. Andrew's' Church, Chedworth

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Interior of Chedworth Church

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New stone pulpit, carved in Year 2000, at Chedworth Church

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Chedworth Rectory garden

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A bee on a thistle by a Cotswold lane

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Exterior of 'St. Margaret's' Church, Bagendon

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Interior of 'St. Margaret's' Church, Bagendon

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'St. Michael's' Church, Duntisbourne Rouse

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'St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Withington

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'St. John the Evangelist's' Church, Elkstone

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Interior of Elkstone Church

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Cheltenham

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'St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Bishop's Cleeve

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Stained glass window in Bishop's Cleeve Church

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'St. Peter's' Church, Winchcombe

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The tower of Winchcombe Church

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The font in Winchcombe Church

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Memorial wall sculpture in Winchcombe Church

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A detail of a stained glass window in Winchcombe Church

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Hailes Church

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'St. Mary's' Church, Great Washbourne

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Alderton

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'Toddington Manor' in Gothic Revival style

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Toddington

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GWR steam train, New Town, Toddington

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'St. Michael's' Church, Buckland

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Hay bales near Daglingworth

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'St. Michael's' Church, Guiting Power

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Tympanum and arch at Guiting Power Church

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'St. Mary's' Church, Deerhurst

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Tredington

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'St. Lawrence's' Church, Weston Subedge

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Exterior of 'St. Andrew's' Church, Aston Subedge

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Interior of 'St. Andrew's' Church

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'St. Peter's' Church, Willersey

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The Church of 'St. Barnabas', Snowshill

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'Tower Close', Snowshill

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'St. Mary's' Church, Lower Swell

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'St. James' Church, Clapton-on-the-Hill

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'St. Peter's' Church, Farmington

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'St. George's' Church, Hampnett

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Cirencester

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The flower-bedecked 'Tontine Buildings', Cecily Hill, Cirencester

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Hanging baskets in Cirencester

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Exterior of 'St. Lawrence's' Church, Bourton-on-the-Hill

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Interior of 'St. Lawrence's' Church, Bourton-on-the-Hill

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'St. James' Church, Longborough

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'St. Edward's' Church, Stow-on-the-Wold

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Stained glass window in Stow-on-the-Wold Church

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'St. Bartholomew's' Church, Notgrove

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'All Saints' Church, Turkdean

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Fragment of a Norman chevron arch at 'All Saints' Church

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Ampney St. Peter Church

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Lechlade on the River Thames

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'St. Lawrence's' Church, Lechlade

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'St. Andrew's' Church, Eastleach Turville

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'St. Martin's' Church, Eastleach Martin

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'St. Nicholas' Church, Hatherop

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Stained glass window in Hatherop Church

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Coln St. Aldwyns

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Headstones in Coln St. Aldwyns churchyard

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Norman chevron arch at Coln St. Aldwyns Church

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'St. Peter's' Church, Rodmarton

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Stained glass window in Rodmarton Church

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'The Holy Cross' Church, Avening

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The Church of 'St. Nicholas', Cherington

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'St. John the Baptist's' Church, Pitchcombe

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'St. Leonard's' Church, Upton St. Leonards

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'Primrose Cottage', Upton St. Leonards

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'St. Mary's' Church, Cowley

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'St. Michael's' Church, Brimpsfield

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As many of the pictures have illustrated, the stonecraft of the Cotswolds is seen at its finest in the churches. The porches, vaulted naves and square towers become a framework of incomparable beauty for elaborate ornament. In their stonework, something of the life and thought of the people who lived in the Cotswolds in the past is handed on.

The Romans were in Gloucestershire from 80 AD until well into the 4th Century. Normans had their influence on local architecture, nine hundred years later. The Cotswold wool trade, which flourished in the 18th Century, resulted in many fine Mills being built in the valleys. These Mills constructed for 'fulling' and processing cloth, derived their power from mill wheels driven by the Cotswold streams. Mill owners grew rich on the proceeds of the industry and these rich land owners built fine houses and manors in the county.

It is against this background that our forefathers' surviving handiwork is seen. It includes such fine work as the font at Ozleworth Church and the tithe barn at Ashleworth. The tithe barns in Gloucestershire are some of the most lovely functional buildings ever devised in England. Then there are the varying styles of Owlpen Old Manor, Hidcote House and Sezingcote. Each, in its way, is a felicitous expression of the Cotswold builder's art.

Above all, there is the intricate beauty of the great Cotswold churches, the uncluttered wintry loveliness of Northleach porch; the soaring elaboration of Gloucester Cathedral; the magnificence of Chipping Campden and Cirencester. From these and many other works, by known and unknown hands, the Cotswold tradition was built up. Our inheritance is a landscape that is a living work of art.

I hope the pictures on this website convey this notion to the viewer and that visitors will come from all over the World to see our local gems of visual delight. The skill and judgement of centuries past have created a priceless heritage and the challenge of the new Millennium is to cherish and preserve the harmony and beauty that is encapsulated in the Cotswolds.

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