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St Mary's Church, Thenford
The church is across a field alongside Michael Heseltine's back garden, in which he has a lake and several thousand different trees by the look of it. The church is mainly 14th and 15th century, not large and with an air of gentle neglect about it, helped by the overgrown back-to-nature churchyard. A little east of the doorway is the Elizabethan monument with effigy of Fulk Woodhul d.1613. He seems to have been placed a little far up his recess, his head against the respond at one end and leaving a gap between him and the other end, where a carved lion lies. Maybe the sculptor just wanted to show off the sandals on the feet which have unusually been carved with a strap around the sole as if to keep them in place. (Commentary provided by Phil Draper) |
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[Created 16 Jun 2005. Last updated 6 Nov 2007 - 14:32 by Rosemary Lockie]