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Annual Report 2017 www.wiltshirehistoricchurchestrust.org.uk The Friends Of Wiltshire Churches

President Committee Mrs Sarah Rose Troughton, HM Lord- Mrs Diana Beattie Lieutenant of Wiltshire The Hon Edward Buchan His Honour Judge Mark Everall QC Vice-Presidents (Chairman of WHCT) Lieutenant-Colonel James Arkell Jeremy Groom Esq Madeleine, Countess of Bessborough Michael Hodges Esq The Bishop of Bristol Luke Hughes Esq John Bush Esq Brigadier Nigel Jackson (Secretary of The Bishop of Clifton the WHCT) Robert Floyd Esq The Ven Alan Jeans Henry Hoare Esq Mrs Caroline Keevil The Countess of Inchcape Morris le Fleming Esq The Rt Rev William Ind Mrs Clare Miles Sir Maurice Johnston John Osborne Esq Lord King of Mark Robinson Esq The Marquis of Lansdowne Chris Rogers Esq Lord Margadale Neil Skelton Esq Lord Marland of Odstock Michael Wade Esq Lady Nutting Mrs Claire Perry MP The Earl of Radnor New Members Major-General Sir Sebastian Roberts Sir Henry Rumbold, Bt We are pleased to welcome the The Bishop of following new members who joined The during 2017: Viscount Sidmouth The Duchess of Somerset Mrs Elisabeth Allen (Bath) Lord Talbot of Malahide Mr & Mrs Peter Bell (Marden) Mr & Mrs Simon Bennett (Luckington) Chairman Mrs Agnes Capes (Westbury) Martin Knight Esq Mr & Mrs Gwynne Evans (Trowbridge) Ms Sarah Finch-Crisp () Deputy Chairman Mr & Mrs Rodney Gillington (Urchfont) Mrs Diana Matthews-Duncan Mrs Belinda Harding (Marlborough) Mr William Hiscocks (Berwick St James) Secretary Major General & Mrs Anthony Jeapes David Evans Esq () Dr & Mrs George Lodge (Upper South Treasurer Wraxall) Peter Smith Esq Dr Terry Rogers (Marlborough) Treasurer of the Wiltshire Historic Mrs Barbara Tomlinson () Churches Trust (WHCT) The Rev Simon Woodley (Salisbury) Mrs Deborah Young ()

1 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Future Events

Saturday 10 February 2018 Winter Lecture Series. “The Urns and Sepulchres of Mortality” Wiltshire Church Monuments from St Osmund to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner by Michael Hodges, at the Hinton Hall, Church Street, Tisbury, SP3 6NH. 3.00pm.

Saturday 17 March 2018 Annual General Meeting, followed by the Annual Guest Lecture on War Memorials, Near and Far, to be given by Dr Timothy Connor, at Market Lavington Community Hall, SN10 4DG at 2.30pm.

Saturday 14 April 2018 Proposed tour of churches in the Ludgershall area, to include Collingbourne Kingston, East Grafton and Tidcombe to be led by Brian Woodruffe.

Saturday 19 May 2018 Proposed tour of churches around Salisbury Plain, to include Imber to be led by Neil Skelton.

Sunday 24 June 2018 Summer party at Lydiard Park, preceded by choral evensong at St Mary’s Lydiard Tregose.

Saturday 7 July 2018 Proposed tour of churches near Bradford-on-Avon to include Great Chalfield, Westwood and Lacock to be led by John Osborne.

Saturday 8 September 2018 Proposed tour of churches in North Wiltshire, to include Selsley and Minchinhampton in Gloucestershire, to be led by Christopher Rogers.

Further details of all these events will be announced in due course.

Website News

The trustees decided that our website needed to be brought into the more modern age. Nigel Jackson has done sterling work in achieving this and our new revamped site went live at the end of the year. We hope the Friends will invest time discovering the huge amount of information that is to be found.

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THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2 Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust Grants

We have again been able to take advantage of partnership grants, totalling £10,000, offered by the National Churches Trust. As a result, an additional £5,000 was awarded to both St Peter’s Stourton and Christ Church, Shaw.

The following grants were awarded by the Trustees in June 2017: Church Project £ Grant

St Peter, Stourton Church roof replacement £2000 Christ Church, Shaw Spire, roofs and drainage £4000 St Andrew, Newton Toney Spire and roofs £2000 St George, Preshute Tower roof £2000 St John, West Grimstead Tower roof £2000 St Mary, Rodbourne Cheney Tower, roof and drainage £2000 St Peter, Milton Lilbourne Tower repair £1500 St Andrew, Collingbourne Ducis Tower mullion £1000 St Nicholas, Baydon Vestry roof £1500 St Giles, Tytherton Kellaways Cupola repair £2000 St Peter ad Vincula, Nave roof £2000 Broad Hinton All Saints, Oaksey 15th Century Wall Paintings £4000 St Christopher, Ditteridge Historic stained glass window £500 St Augustine, Upton Lovell Reventilate nave, wiring and £2000 damp proofing Station Hill Baptist, Disabled and Pushchair access £2500 Chippenham St Michael and All Angels, Heating £2500 Hilperton St John, Upper Studley Electrical/fire safety £1000 Holy Cross, with Internal Wall repairs £4000 Draycott Foliat

TOTAL £38,500.00 plus £10,000 NCT Partnership Grants

3 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 The following grants were awarded by the Trustees in November 2017 Church Project £ Grant

St Andrew, Castle Combe Knight’s Chapel and Vestry £2500 St Peter and St Paul, Chancel roof £2750 Heytesbury St Mary, Stapleford Chancel roof, guttering, £1000 pointing St Mary, Purton Chancel and Porch roofs £2000 St Peter, Poulshot Tower £2000 All Saints, Westbury Tower roof £2500 St Patrick, Corsham Tower, walls, gutter, fire door £1000 St Mary, West Knoyle Porch and Chancel stonework, £1000 Nave roof Bath Road Methodist, Stonework and walls £1000 St Mary, Lydiard Tregoze Medieval wall paintings £3000 All Saints, West Winterslow WW1 Memorial £2000 St Michael and All Angels, Heating boiler £2000 St Margaret, Chilmark Heating boiler £2000 St Mary, Bishops Cannings Heating boiler £2000 St George, Urgent electrical safety £2500 St Peter, Great Cheverell Toilet, kitchenette and servery £2500 All Saints, All Cannings Toilet renovation £1250 Holy Cross, Seend Toilet and kitchenette £2500 All Saints, Whiteparish Historic organ £500

TOTAL £36,000.00 2017 TOTAL £74,500.00 plus £10,000

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 4 News Round by Martin Knight Once again, it is my pleasure to report Voronsova, wife of the 11th Earl of on a very satisfactory year which has Pembroke. Anniversaries will still be in been enjoyed by the Friends: lots of our minds at the AGM in 2018 when varied events, the highlight of which we will reflect on War Memorials. was undoubtedly our summer party at Trafalgar Park. We will probably remember the summer of 2017 as one of two halves. We have tried to ring a few changes Fortunately, our summer party fell in to our well established programme of the good half and some 120 Friends church tours by adding some extra were able to enjoy a glorious June events and extending our reach evening of eating and drinking at beyond the county boundary. Trafalgar Park. We are extremely grateful to Michael Wade for his In February, we trialled the first in our generosity in allowing us to use his series of Winter Lectures. How very magnificent house and garden for fortunate we are to have Brian this occasion. My grateful thanks go Woodruffe, one of our trustees, who to Diana Mathews-Duncan and her was able to share his knowledge of army of helpers who arranged the all the wonderful stained glass that is catering. As is our custom, we held an in our churches. His talk on Stained evensong in a nearby church prior to Glass in Wessex Churches post WW1 the supper. I am very grateful to the was fascinating and, of course, Rev Frank Gimson and his team at St contained some brilliant illustrations Laurence, Downton for arranging this collected from his travels round the service for us. As an added bonus, we county. Such was the success of this were delighted to welcome the lecture, that Michael Hodges is now Rt Rev Edward Condry, Bishop of under huge pressure to maintain this , to preach at the service. high standard in February 2018. Such was the excellence and Your committee has been doing a lot relevance of his sermon, that we of thinking about anniversaries and it have, with his permission, published a was decided to mark the centenary summary in this report. It all made for of the Russian Revolution by inviting a very special evening. Jane Angelini, well known for her knowledge of Russian art, to deliver It is not often that one finds the Annual Lecture at our AGM in oneself being the beneficiary of a March. Her talk on Liturgy and Art in fund raising event without having to Russian Churches was extremely well lift a finger. So when we were received and we were able to enjoy approached by Marion it in the appropriate surroundings of St Gordon-Finlayson who offered us the Mary & St Nicholas, Wilton, which was proceeds from the play held in her built by the Russian Countess, Katerina garden at Ogbourne Maizey each

5 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 summer, we leapt at the chance. To all our guides, I offer our sincere Fortunately, that July evening was fine thanks for all the work they do in and we were able enjoy a arranging such special outings. performance of the hilarious Third Detailed reports of all these tours can Policeman by Flann O’Brien produced be found in the body of the Report. by the Miracle Theatre Company from Cornwall. We were even more I am pleased to welcome Lord Talbot delighted when Marion presented the of Malahide as a Vice-President, in Trust with a cheque for £1700. place of his late father, and Jeremy Huge thanks go to her and her Groom who has joined the Friends husband, Ian. committee. Our membership continues to grow at a steady rate Church tours have been the and during the year we were pleased backbone of the Friends’ activities to welcome 16 new Friends. Clearly, since its inception. In 2017 we our membership and subscriptions to attempted to vary them by subject the church tours and summer party and location and, we hope, catered generate good income for the Trust for all tastes. We started in April in the but this is always surpassed by the area, therefore, partly outside magnificent amount raised by Ride & our own county. Glyn Bridges led a Stride each year. We are once again fascinating tour which benefitted well greatly indebted to Charles Graham from his great local knowledge. for managing this so successfully. In May we became a little more Charles is embarking on his last year in academic and enlisted the help of this role and we would be pleased to the Wiltshire Medieval Graffiti Survey hear from anyone who would Group. Tony Hack and Judith consider taking over from him. Our Thompson started with a activities, combined with sales from comprehensive presentation on their Christmas cards and Brian Woodruffe’s work before we examined some book allowed us to allocate almost amazing graffiti in churches around £85,000 (£10,000 of which came from the area. the NCT) to our beautiful churches. Most of us must have visited but in July, and Finally, my grateful thanks to Kt Keevil in the company of two such expert Whitehead who has kindly overseen guides as John Osborne and the design of this report and to Bishop Christopher Rogers, we were truly Ed whose sermon in June was a true spoilt. John also managed to gain inspiration and so pertinent to us all. I special access to the Library which feel it deserves its place right here: was an enormous privilege. Finally, on a glorious September day, The poet and R.S. Thomas wrote Eddie Buchan took us round some of that “I was vicar of large things in a the churches in North West Wilts. Who small .” He was, I suppose, can forget exploring the idyllic village imagining that he was the one who and church of Ditteridge. was to speak of the immensities of THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 6 God, steward of His mysteries, and For too long, I believe, it has been there he was locked in a parish where easy to downgrade the importance no doubt people wanted to discuss of church buildings. They are dismissed the price of harvest festival tickets, as human concerns , or even worse, replacing the pews and clearing the true obstacles in the way of gutters. He probably would have felt perceiving the immensity of God: the that too much time was spent large things. We have been told to considering stone, lead and wood: concentrate on the church as the the conservation of ancient fabric. people. There is something deep There is something bleak, deep and about memory identity and the yet inspiring about Thomas’s poetry. holiness of prayer which is held in the He was also a miserabilist, and I think stones. Go to Netheravon and walk in this case wrong. God is found most through the 11th century door and often in those small yet concrete think of all those who have walked things which make up church life, and through there for worship at time of perhaps most especially in buildings. personal or national peril in those First, however, a digression. Rowan near 1000 years. Take communion at Williams told a story of visiting a Stanton St Bernard and you will be theological college where a “pious physically joining with those whose lips ordinand” asked him what prayer he have taken wine from their beautiful used when receiving the collection at 16th century chalice. Offertory. The ordinand was expecting The church is both people and some great piece of spiritual poetry. building. Indeed, I would say that for Rowan, however, replied, “Well, I many who do not come, the prime usually just say, ‘thanks for the sign of the church is the building. Our money’ “. Diocesan Synod has adopted a policy which emphasises the importance So to all of you in the Wiltshire Historic of a flourishing Christian presence in Churches’ Trust: Thanks for the money. every community, and that involves a I was at Stourton this summer where commitment to the building as well as they successfully raised money for the the people. roof. I went to Fifield Bavant at Our experience of God needs a Christmas last year where with a physical focus that we find in the population of 22 they raised £125,000 sacraments. I believe that the church to keep the roof on. I was at Chilton building is a kind of sacrament itself. Foliat earlier in the year where they Our discipleship of Christ needs to be had raised well over £200,000. At Alton held in a community of God’s people Barnes we celebrated another near that is found in the church, and which £200,000 fund raising campaign is past, present and future. successfully completed. These efforts So thanks for the money, as the are magnificent. They renew hope. Archbishop said. Your contributions as a Trust are Thanks also for your support of our significant. Thank you. glorious churches, living symbols of a living faith. 7 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Ride & Stride Saturday 9th September 2017 by Charles Graham

“Thank you all for your very kind horse-riders, two mobility scooter riders donations, we reached our target of from Melksham and a large £200 and cycled 37 miles to 20 lovely number of exercise bikers from churches through beautiful Hilperton. St. James, Bratton again set countryside. Glorious sunshine all a fine example, fielding 46 day and a total soaking in the last 5 participants and walking off with the minutes.” Brooke Cup for the 7th year in A couple from Kington St. Michael. succession. The Junior Cup (under 18s) was won this year by a small “We made it to Chirton, group from St Mary the Virgin, Beechingstoke, Marden, Wilsford, Grittleton. Congratulations to all. Charlton, North Newnton, Rushall and Upavon. Not sure how far we walked, The amount of sponsorship money but it must have been more than 10 raised was £45,000, half of which goes miles. It was a great walk, the weather back to the participants’ chosen was mostly kind (we got drenched just church. When Gift Aid is added the before Rushall) and we even got to total should come to over £53,000, see a wedding!” similar to the 2016 figure. Bratton and Two sisters from Chirton and Upavon. Salisbury Cathedral both raised over £2,000, and a number of quite small Supporters of Wiltshire’s churches churches, including St. Michael, turned out in greater numbers in 2017 Compton Chamberlayne, St George, than in the inclement weather of Preshute and St Michael, Shalbourne, 2016: over 300 of them, mainly cyclists, raised over £1,000. but plenty of walkers, a couple of

3 generations of Bratton striders Jill Houghton at Pitton

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 8 A selection of notable individual - Raymond Samways of Laverstock achievements: has completed 25 years, cycling and then walking. This year, aged 87, he - 42 churches were notched up by walked to 15 churches around Adrian Johnson and Ian Wigmore Salisbury, raising £422, which he form Great Somerford and John reckons brings his total to over Davidson from the Dorcan Church, £11,000. Swindon. - Another long-standing supporter is - Alan Abrams (aged 88) from Roger Hayward of Netheravon. He Melksham cycled to 19 churches. was unable to take part last year, suffering from a serious cancer. After - 3 generations of striders from a successful operation he was back Bratton - Grandmother Cally Walters, on his bike this year, covering 50 miles her daughter Alice (9 months and visiting 20 churches. pregnant) and grandson William, aged 2 – walked round 6 churches in The Trust is hugely grateful for the Devizes. commitment of such people. It seems a shame that so many church-goers - Jillian Wright from Salisbury Cathedral are reluctant to join in what is an raised £1,055. enjoyable and relatively painless way of raising money, both for their own church and to contribute to the vital work of the Trust. The 2018 Ride & Stride is on Saturday 8th September; maybe readers of this who are PCC members could prompt your colleagues into action?

Tabitha Hope (Rodbourne) on her 9th birthday Many loyal supporters of Ride & Stride have been participating for a very Trust Sec Nigel Jackson at his home church long time. Two examples: in Corsham

9 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Report on the Annual General Meeting and Annual Lecture held in the Church of St. Mary and St. Nicholas, Wilton, Saturday, 18th March, 2017 by Clare Miles Annual General Meeting Martin Knight, Chairman, extended a had been awarded grants for welcome to Sarah Troughton, maintenance, improvements or Lord-Lieutenant of Wiltshire and conservation projects. President of the Friends of Wiltshire Particular grants had been Churches, and to the fifty Members supplemented through a beneficial present. The President thanked Martin partnership with the National and the members of his committee Churches Trust which offered for all their work throughout the year match-funding up to the value of which contributes so much towards £10,000 each year. He stressed that the maintenance and repair of the Trust would welcome more Wiltshire’s churches. She also applications from churches and welcomed Jane Angelini and said chapels. how much she was looking forward to her lecture. For last year’s events, thanks were due to the leaders of four well attended The minutes of the Annual General Church tours and especially to Vice Meeting held on 19th March, 2016, President, Madeleine, Countess of were approved. Bessborough, for very kindly hosting, In his report the Chairman thanked once again, the annual summer party Neil Skelton, Committee Member, and at Roche Court; September’s event members of the Church of St. Mary preceded by Evensong at Farleigh and St. Nicholas for their part in the Church was particularly popular. arrangements for the day’s meeting. Charles Graham, Wiltshire Coordinator David Evans was unable to attend; he of the annual fund-raising event, ‘Ride was thanked for his on-going work as & Stride’, had described in the Secretary and for recently distributing Annual Report the brave efforts of the Annual Report for 2016. Producing participants who toured around the Annual Report has been churches in poor weather. Via the generously undertaken for many years support of their sponsors they raised by Luke Hughes, Committee Member, nearly £44,000 which, with the and his company. This contribution addition of Gift Aid, would be at was gratefully acknowledged. the disposal of the Wiltshire Historic Reviewing the past year, the Churches Trust. Chairman commented on the Looking to the programme of events activity of the Wiltshire Historic for 2017, four tours of churches were Churches Trust whereby 30 churches planned with itineraries occasionally THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 10 extending their reach over the county appropriateness of the venue chosen border, as has happened in the past. for the lecture. He asked Neil Skelton The Miracle Theatre of Cornwall will to give a little more background. present the play, ‘The Third Policeman’ by Flann O’Brien on Friday The Church of St. Mary and St 14th July, at Ogbourne Maizey. Nicholas, Wilton Thanks to Marion Gordon-Finlayson the profits from this show will be Neil Skelton gave an outline account donated to the Wiltshire Historic of the church which was built in Churches Trust. Members would be 1841-45 to designs by Thomas Henry fully notified of these events and of Wyatt and David Brandon for Lord the date and venue for the 2017 Sidney Herbert, brother of the Earl of Summer Party. Pembroke and his Russian-born Peter Smith, Treasurer of the WHCT, mother, Catherine, the Dowager presented his statement of the Friends Countess. The architectural style of Wiltshire Churches’ income and selected was that of a round-arched expenditure for 11 months, 1st April, Italianate Romanesque which was 2016 to 28th February, 2017, showing briefly popular in the mid Victorian a balance of £23,400. A net profit of period. The interior is lofty and £4,000 had resulted from the Summer monumental in scale with the Party. character of an early Christian Income from membership fees, basilica. The focal point of the interior events, and the sale of Christmas is the richly decorated East End with a cards and Brian Woodruffe’s book, mosaic depicting Christ in Glory and ‘The Parish Churches of Wiltshire’, the church’s dedicatees, St. Mary and had remained steady. Income from St. Nicholas, to either side. donations in 2016 was reduced from Fine quality sculpture, valuable the previous year’s result which had artefacts, stained glass and had the benefit of an exceptional gift. stonework were described by Neil He reported that in the year to date Skelton. Many items had been Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust grants acquired from continental sources or paid to churches totalled £49,350. from the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale of Outstanding grants yet to be claimed, Horace Walpole’s antiquarian totalled £94,700. collection.

The provisional date of the next The Chairman then welcomed Jane Annual General Meeting was set as Angelini. Jane had graduated in Saturday 17th March, 2018. Russian Studies and took a Masters degree in Byzantine & Early Russian Art The Chairman then formally closed & Architecture. As well as running St the Annual General Meeting. James’s Art Tours she works as a Since the annual lecture was on the free-lance lecturer for numerous theme of Russian churches, the organisations, including NADFAS, the chairman alerted members on the Art Fund and Swan Hellenic Cruises. 11 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 The Annual Lecture : Churches of Russia – Art and Liturgy Given by Jane Angelini

The starting point for the lecture was Kiev was a flourishing commercial the centenary commemoration of centre. In deciding on religious the 1917 Russian Revolution, a subject practice for Kiev, leaders favoured which in turn prompted a look at the the Orthodox branch of Christian- broader historical sweep of art and ity and looked to Constantinople for liturgy of the Russian Orthodox guidance. Envoys were overwhelmed Church. The impressive architectural by Hagia Sophia Cathedral, the setting for the lecture was moving liturgy, the spiritual mysticism reminiscent of Byzantine art and of the Church and its veneration of early Italian church architecture and holy icons. In 988 Prince Vladimir of seemed appropriate to the subject. Kiev was baptised along with his people thereby creating a Christian The scene was set with an illustration state. The Cathedral of Saint Sophia of a painting of a public meeting followed the pattern of Byzantine with sight of Tatlin’s 1919 model for church architecture with a central the sculpture, ‘Monument to the Third dome and prominent apse; International’. At the time of the craftsmen from Constantinople Revolution progressive Russian assisted with interior mosaic artists were forging radical styles with decoration. revolutionary fervour but politicians eventually suppressed their As frescoes and mosaics were not avant-garde work in favour of Soviet always practicable in wooden Social Realism. However in portraits of structures and sculptures deemed Lenin or pictures of industrial workers, unacceptable, so the use of icons in iconic imagery could be detected. churches was adopted. In 1131 the The Revolution could not throw off Greek Patriarch of Constantinople centuries of engrained artistic sent the ‘Mother of God’ icon to Kiev; sensibility which had its roots in it became a model for artists. The medieval art of the Russian iconostasis for the display of icons was Orthodox Church. The speaker first developed; it was a huge wall with took us through Russia’s misty a door behind which the sanctuary beginnings. was placed. Artists, generally , followed the strictly prescribed and In the 6th and 7th centuries, across a hallowed ways of depicting Christ, the borderless land of vast forests, steppes Holy Virgin or Saints. Painted images and deserts, Slavs had merged with on wooden panels did not simply Viking traders and were exploring river illustrate sacred episodes for the pious routes between the Baltic, Caspian who could not read. Icons were and Black Seas. By the 10th century consecrated objects of meditation THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 12 which showed the Heavenly Kingdom Kiev diminished. By the 15th century and Sacred Truths in visual terms, Moscow had grown in influence and conveying mysteries that were prosperity and the nearby Trinity beyond man’s understanding. Early Monastery of St. Sergii became the icons of the Kiev School displayed spiritual and artistic centre for the the rigid monumentality of Byzantine Orthodox Church. Its achievements works and little depth or naturalism. were exemplified by the art of the monk Andrei Rublev. The schools of Churches from the 11th century icon painting in Novgorod and Suzdal onwards retained the influence of had earlier softened the rigid Byzantine Orthodoxy. Buildings were Byzantine Kiev style, compositions adapted to suit local materials and had more depth, rhythm and bright Russian winters; single domes were glowing colour. Rublev’s style now replaced by clusters of small domes. combined grace, spirituality and The decoration of the interior walls humanity. His celebrated icon of was hierarchic, from Heaven down to 1420, ‘The Trinity’, showing three Earth – a microcosm of the Universe. angels seated around a table, was Uppermost in the apses were the imbued with religious symbolism to large-scale images of Christ or the focus on the mystery of the Holy Trinity. Holy Virgin, below in tiers were ranks of Saints and biblical scenes. The Russia had been isolated from the speaker explained characteristics influence of the Italian Renaissance of these Orthodox presentations: but by the 16th century western styles they inspired hope, depictions of The of art and architecture were slowly Crucifixion or of Damnation were rare; being introduced. Greater freedom mysticism prevailed as God alone had of interpretation in religious art and the answers and man was architecture was sought and the more inconsequential. secular Europeanising policies of Peter the Great consolidated this trend. We were treated to evocative However, by the end of the 19th illustrations of white painted and century wealthy industrialists and the domed churches and monasteries intelligentsia began to reclaim in sometimes remote sacred places. Old Russian Art. Arts and Crafts Novgorod was a rich Holy City, Suzdal Movement buildings based on monastery, a spiritual centre and the traditional styles were produced and exquisite Cathedral of the the art of icon painting was revived. Annunciation in Moscow’s Kremlin was In wider art historical terms, icon a treasure house of icons. The painting which had been considered extraordinary mass of the colourful a debased form of classical art, now domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral seemed found its proper place. After the to embody a Heavenly Jerusalem. Revolution, with the cleaning and classification of historic examples, a Following the 13th century Mongolian better understanding of their invasion the economic significance of aesthetic grew. 13 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 In the years preceding the 1917 returned to figurative art. His, ‘Self Revolution knowledge of European Portrait’ revealed stylistic features of artistic movements combined with the icon painting in the flatness of form interest in traditional art to and the emphasis on boldly defined encourage a modernist culture. The eyes and hands. He could also painter Kasimir Malevitch founded portray a religious intensity in, Suprematism which centred on the ‘Peasants at Prayer’. Soviet figurative primacy of feeling whereby the visual painter, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin phenomena of the objective world produced modern day religious were meaningless. With other images and icons even. His ‘Madonna avant-garde artists he employed a and Child’ showed a contemporary ‘grammar’ of flat geometrical forms. ‘Worker’ woman and child. The centrepiece of the 1915 Jane Angelini saw in Russian culture in Suprematist exhibition was his, ‘Black its widest sense an abstract Square’, placed in the ‘red/beautiful communion of worship and rigorous corner’ which, in the Russian Orthodox zeal – a force behind the Revolution tradition, was the place for the main itself. icon in a home. In this contemplative work the speaker recognised a Stunned by the speaker’s enlightening ‘cosmic energy’. accounts and a succession of This breakthrough in modernist beautiful illustrations, the audience thinking was to be influential in the showed its warm appreciation. The development of abstract art in the Chairman thanked her for a West, however Malevitch eventually wonderful lecture.

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 14 Winter Lecture Series Stained Glass in Wessex Churches by Brian Woodruffe Saturday 11th February 2017 by Caroline Keevil

This was a lovely way to spend a cold I certainly had my favourites: February Saturday afternoon - the Christopher Whall early 20th century, colours, the warmth and light and the Harry Clarke’s Art Deco window in quality and presentation of Brian’s Sturminster Newton 1921, Christopher images were a delight. And he talks Webb’s use of yellow in his 1931 north so well, I liked the way he set out the window in Salisbury, Alan Younger’s route he was going to take us from lancet slab window at Worth Chartres’ 13th Century Rose window Matravers in 2000, so so simple, Henry of such inspiration, briefly through Haig and Mark Angus’ work in the late Medieval and Victorian to the 20th 20th Century, Andrew Taylor who lives and now the 21st Century, finally locally, Thomas Denny’s 2013 window linking Gabriel Loir’s glorious Prisoners at Woodford. Towards the end when of Conscience east window in Brian showed us the engraved Salisbury Cathedral back to Chartres. window that Tracey Sheppard made And Brian’s unalloyed admiration for for Boldre in 2000 the clear the Salisbury window was quite uncoloured light was like a frosty moving. morning after so much colour. I am surely going to enjoy visiting He covered the technology of Stained these churches with my eyes newly Glass, the different types of glass opened. used and why, that it is painted glass, and the use of leading; to remember that the light is coming towards you through the glass and that clear or pale glass gives the definition to the design; that light moves from east to west and varies in quality; the use of the countryside outside coming through the window; the difference between figurative and symbolic windows; and that contemporary designers are more skilful on those aspects than the medievals were.

There was a lot of detail in this talk, I can only list a few of the churches he took us to and the designers and the designer makers, whose work we saw. Loir’s East window at Salisbury Cathedral

15 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Tour of Churches near Frome led by Glyn Bridges Saturday 8th April 2017 by David Evans

Saturday April 8th turned out to be the warmest and sunniest day of the year so far. Since several of the churches were in picturesque countryside, the fine weather was an especially great advantage.

About 28 Friends gathered in the pretty village of Lullington to admire what turned out to be architecturally the most distinguished church of the day, perhaps the most The font at All Saints, Lullington enjoyable Norman village church in Somerset, so Pevsner opined. Inside A drive through a huge park, much of the church, Glyn Bridges drew our it used by golfers, took us to the island attention to the splendid font with its church of Orchardleigh. It was tempt- human and animal faces and ing to linger outside enjoying the inscription assuring us that our sins sunshine, the blossom and the tranquil could be washed away within it. setting instead of entering the dark He pointed out interesting Norman church. Nonetheless, there was much features of the arches supporting the of interest within, notably an early central tower. The piece de 14th century font, much late medieval resistance, however, was the north stained glass, two corbel figures doorway, which boasts the full array designed to hold up the Lenten veil of Norman ornamentation, including and church plate which included a sculpted tympanum, with zigzag a 13th century pewter chalice. and beak-heads around it and a seated figure (Christ in majesty?) in the gable above.

Detail of Green Man at All Saints, Lullington St Mary’s Orchardleigh

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 16 Glyn had arranged for us to have Queen Elizabeth with a very lunch at the Mill at Rode, which has prominent green dragon; a 15th a lovely setting above a mill race, century brass (a copy, alas, since a though service proved slow. Fed and theft); and interesting monuments, watered, we searched out Rodden including one to Samuel Danyel Church, which has an admirably hailed by Pevsner as probably the rural position next to a brook and a first monument in the county in a fully farm, but nowhere near a village. This understood classical taste. excessively long building is an edifice of 1640, not a date much associated Our foray into Somerset proved a with church-building, and it retains its most interesting and successful church 17th century pews. tour. The general enjoyment owed something to the weather, but even With Berkley Church, our fourth, we more to our guide, Glyn Bridges. He moved into the 18th century. It planned our day with great care and appears that the owner of the local gave us the benefit of his very manor house, Thomas Prowse, extensive local knowledge in his decided to rebuild the village church introductions to each church, which near his mansion and acted as his covered not only the architectural own architect. The exterior is not features, but also anecdotes from impressive, but the interior takes the local history. breath away, dominated by a central dome and lantern with sumptuous stucco decoration. It seems clear that Prowse owed much to what Wren had built in London. It was a pity that the impact was somewhat spoiled by an overwhelming musty odour. Yet Pevsner must surely be right in judging this the best Georgian church in any Somerset village.

Our final stop was in Beckington. The impressive Norman tower with vigorous decoration in its upper stages marks the church out as a building of importance and the Perpendicular fan vault inside the tower is a fine feature too. Glyn was critical of the restorers who had exposed the stone walls within the building, but there were several things to enjoy: good timber roofs; two tombs with carved figures of ca. 1370; a coat of arms of West Window at St Mary’s Orchardleigh 17 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Lecture and Tour of Graffiti in Churches led by Tony Hack and Judith Thomson Saturday 6th May 2017 by Martin Knight and James Thompson

Armed with our torches, some 20 some fascinating examples of reverse Friends met at St Mary the Virgin, imaging. However, he had to admit Bishops Cannings on a bright but cold that there was nothing to beat a real May morning. drawing! This is what Judith does so skilfully. Tony and Judith are the prime movers in the Wiltshire Medieval Graffiti Survey Group which is part of the Wiltshire Archaelogical Field Group. Tony gave us a presentation explaining the remit of the study into graffiti in the county, explaining their involvement with a lot of local groups, including Salisbury. They engage with other groups in the UK, particularly Norfolk (who are the pioneers) and hence there is the need for a common parlance. They are Tony Hack at Bishop Cannings also involved in education and have Tony then showed us a series of already written several reports, images ranging from ships and including one for the Churches dragons to huntsmen and dogs. Ships Conservation Trust. Their current work are a prize for graffiti lovers, includes surveying Bath Abbey where, particularly in a land locked county in spite of its inaccessible towers, they such as ours. There is a particularly are making some amazing finds. They beautiful one at St Sampsons are also involved at Malmesbury Cricklade. But could this symbol carry Abbey. In both cases, they are a particular reference? (see below). helping to build the graffiti into the There is clearly a huge amount of conservation plans of those buildings. graffiti to analyse and this has to be done by isolating parts of busy walls The word graffiti comes from many and referring to church records for roots but it principally means interpretation and dating. scratching. Clearly, it is important to have good light to view graffiti. But Tony also showed a short film clip the light has to be angled correctly of how water when poured onto a and we were given a lesson on how carving (on a tomb in this case) can to use our torches to the best effect. enhance the image. Interestingly the Technology is also helping us see image was best illuminated by a low things more clearly and he showed us winter’s sun. When it came to

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 18 pilgrimage symbols, Tony was very us that it can up to 20 minutes for our open minded. Images of ships could eyes to adjust. No such time today: indicate the use of ships as part of the he turned on his torch and we were pilgrimage. You can make up blinded by the most amazing amount whatever stories you like to interpret of graffiti. This he said, was probably the graffiti. the best rural church for graffiti in the county. (See backpage image) This was a fascinating introduction to medieval graffiti. Judith pointed out It was hard to know where to start. that we would find graffiti in the There were many things not worth obvious places in a church: on bothering about but there were pillars, doorways, porches, windows also some fascinating and beautful etc. Armed with this information and scratchings: lots of bells (unusual), inspired by Tony’s presentation we set concentric circles, dragons, ships. off in pursuit where we found faces, Some of the stones appeared to have hats, circles and many other come from elsewhere but, in spite of scratchings. that, everything had been done with huge passion. Why was there so much Tony and Judith would like to hear of graffiti in the porch when there was any interesting graffiti we find in our almost nothing in the church? Tony own churches. Please go to www. and Judith admitted that they still wiltshire-medieval-graffiti-survey.com. had much to do in their survey of this As Tony said, this is a project for things church. to do for the rest of your life! We had time to walk round the pretty After our busy and informative churchyard in the afternoon and morning, we set off for the White even find some strange carvings on Horse Inn in Compton Bassett who the south wall, referred to some as very efficiently provided us with lunch wife beating equipment! at a long table in their dining room. Our third and final church wasSt Suitably fortified we wound our way Nicholas in Bromham. This is another back through the narrow country extensive Wiltshire village, but the lanes to St Mary the Virgin, Calstone stubby tower and elegant spire was Wellington. Here is a pretty little always readily evident to guide us to church, sitting in the middle of the excellent car park nearby. nowhere. If you were to look it up in any reference book, not much is said We were greeted by the Church about it. Warden and friends clearing up after a wedding! The church is large in a When we arrived, Tony ushered us all pleasant and well-kept graveyard into the porch into which we were in the centre of the old part of the crammed like sardines. He then shut village. Inside, the nave and chancel the doors putting us in darkness, telling are as large as the chantry chapel on 19 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 the south side. It was to this chapel The 15th century gilded and that we came to study the graffiti on decorated ceiling above the tomb, the excellent tomb effigy of Sir Roger set off the chapel to perfection. Tocotes. The chapel was founded by him and his stepson Sir Richard We also enjoyed the beautifully Beauchamp between 1485 and 1491. embroidered church kneelers, laid out He died in 1492 and is remembered on the pews. The east window is by by this very detailed and impressive William Morris, and the west window effigy in Derbyshire alabaster, on a by Constable, both glowing in the Marazion serpentine plinth. The effigy afternoon sun. has been easy to inscribe, well covered with fascinating graffiti from We are most grateful to John Drew for the 16th century onwards. his attention and interest, also for the cup of tea and biscuits, offered while we admired and pondered the graffiti. It was a fitting and exciting end to a very good and interesting day.

John Drew explains the graffiti on the Tocotes tomb

John Drew , the Church Warden explained the history of the chapel and the tomb, and drew our attention Tocotes tomb graffiti by Henry Richards to several of the names. Many were 1634; of past rectors, and some names can still be found in the village today! The standard of carving is varied, as the graffiti were made by Cromwellian troops, by rectors and priests, by members of the congregation and even children.

However, they are all very clear and often very well cut. Tony Hack and Judy showed us many more Tocotes tomb graffiti by Tho Bond 1681 examples on the effigy and on the Our huge thanks go to Tony Hack and walls, with their excellent torches. Judith Thomson. THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 20 Tour of Salisbury Cathedral and Library led by John Osborne Saturday 8th July 2017 by Martin Knight and Clare Miles

Another lovely summer’s day saw a group of some 20 Friends assemble outside the Cathedral thereby avoiding the special service for Bishop Wordsworth School Founders’ Day. Fortunately, we are able to move straight to the Library where John introduced us to the Librarian, Emily Library Books at Salisbury Cathedral Naish. The original bookcases were made out of oak owned by Henry VI and Emily explained that the current room access was limited. In the 19thC it was built in 1445 and since then had became open to the public and, been reduced in size. It was originally curiously, things went missing. a chained library which meant that Consequently access became each book was chained to its shelf for restricted and many current cathedral security. Prior to this, the books were workers have never been in. Emily kept at Old Sarum, many of which now arranges special open days and were donated by Bishop Edmund we were very fortunate to be the Guest. beneficiary of one.

The present library has been through After Emily’s talk we were then able many incarnations during which time to examine (no touching!) several jackdaws were found to be marvellous books which she had laid invading and nesting during the 19th out for us. These included: a beautiful C and many volumes have lain in 10thC psalter written in latin but with dust, neglected for many years. an Anglo-Saxon translation beside the text, thought to be owned by the The library currently holds about nunnery at Wilton, a 14thC service 10,000 books, a third of which are not book which included lots of plainsong, fully catalogued. The main catalogue and even a seminal text on forestry was printed in 1880 and work is now and the making of cider from 1670. being done to put it on-line. There are Our visit concluded with a short three sections: modern reference, explanation of parish libraries. These donations and bequests, old were very common after 1720 thanks manuscripts (the oldest being from to the enthusiasm of Thomas Bray who the 9th C). also set up lots in New .

21 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Chris Rogers explaining how high the water table is under the cathedral Now the only one remaining in cathedrals at St Denis and Notre Wiltshire is that at Steeple Ashton. 200 Dame made an impression on the books, not all of which are visiting English scholars. The cathedral theological, from the parish library was constructed out of Purbeck at Gillingham (Dorset) are currently marble and Chilmark limestone preserved at the cathedral. between 1220 and 1258. There was no spire, or expectation of it, and no set For the second part of our tour, we of bells. The A frames were made out split into two groups and into the very of Clarendon and Kilkenny oak. capable hands of John Osborne and Christopher Rogers, both official Perhaps the most extraordinary thing guides to the Cathedral. is that the foundations are only 4ft deep and adding a spire was a huge What an awe inspiring place it is and engineering feat. Christopher Wren we all marvelled at its space and was heavily involved in the grandeur. Chris angled his talk maintenance of it by adding towards ‘Restoration and Taste’ as, reinforcing tie beams above the throughout the centuries, so much crossing. There is still a huge amount had done to the building by additions of scaffolding within the spire to and restoration. support it.

We start with an early example of We are, of course, lucky to have so Early English Gothic but with French many paintings, particularly by Turner, influence. In 1208 the Bishop of made of the cathedral through the Salisbury fled to France and ages. So much restoration took consequently the newly built place: the High Church movement

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 22 in the 1830s resulted in Gilbert Scott church which is a welcoming and vital installing the choir stalls and adding a place of worship. She described the cast iron screen which was removed church’s origins; it was dedicated to in 1958. King George III commissioned St. Thomas of Canterbury after 1226. an organ which has now ended up in Rebuilding programmes of the 15th St Thomas’ church in the city. and 16th centuries produced today’s Pictures from 1968 show a magnificent building. A hall-like structure with nave reredos and candelabra, all now and aisles of almost equal widths, removed. slender piers and some large clear-glazed windows make for a We strolled leisurely round admiring so light, spacious interior. Richly many features pointed out by Chris: decorated timber roofs ornamented the Coats of arms belonging to with carved angels have an impact successive bishops, A fine old chest as does the famous medieval Doom, used for storing documents, or Day of Judgement wall painting monuments with hands and noses over a high chancel arch. This removed, and the exquisite chapel of sophisticated work of art, the largest Edmund Audley (similar to work at St of its kind in England, was painted George’s Windsor). We were able to over at the Reformation and admire two sets of medieval stained rediscovered and restored in the 19th glass and could make out traces of century. coloured pigment in parts of the ceiling. Our attention was drawn to the many fine quality furnishings including Overall it was a fascinating tour of one monuments, misericords, heraldic of the country’s great treasures and hatchments, metalwork and Chris left us worrying about the next woodwork fittings, embroidery, a 500 time that the building might flood and year old church chest and a recently pondering over the great question of donated Book of Remembrance. restoration versus modification. Currently an appeal for funds to restore the organ is half way off its Our grateful thanks to John for target; it was originally donated by organising such a wonderful tour and George III to Salisbury Cathedral and to Emily and Chris for contributing so transferred in the 1870s. A mace much. bearing stand serves as a reminder of the church’s official role in the civic The excursion’s afternoon visit brought life of the city; Mayor making services six members to the Parish Church of St. are held here. A continuing tradition Thomas and St. Edmund in the heart of music making and bell ringing is just of Salisbury, the perfect starting place part of the church’s active for anyone wanting to understand engagement with its community. We the history and character of the city. were very grateful to Sally Vaughan Sally Vaughan, of the Wiltshire Historic for her informative and enjoyable tour Churches Trust, showed us around her – inspiring repeat visits in years ahead. 23 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 Tour of 5 Norman churches on Saxon foundatations led by Edward Buchan Saturday 2nd September 2017 by Caroline Keevil

We started at a lovely Coffee and Cake Shop next door to the Church of St John the Baptist in Colerne, a hill village, a feeling of space and air all around it.

Richard Walmsley was an early benefactor, there are fragments of a Saxon Cross mounted on the North Wall, something to do with St Aldhelm on his journey to Canterbury. The arcades were built in 1195 and New College (Oxford) are involved 1389. The Nave, superb ashlar work in Perpendicular style (Woodruffe) and tower were built in 1450.

Notable were the Medieval Gargoyles, a carved panel on the St John the Baptist Colerne: C20th stained North Wall, a very pretty 1450 West glass window Window, the Somerset-style tower with To St Christopher, Ditteridge…. a one-handed clock a la Westminster literally ditch and ridge because of Abbey and by the chancel arch a the proximity to The Fosseway, where stone head of Queen Victoria John Ayers the vicar showed us a 3000 looking across at one of Gladstone. In BC arrow head as proof of the Saxon the South Wall of the Chancel there foundation and described the 1097 is a C20th stained glass window of ceremony of carving four crosses into beautiful clarity made in Box the corners of the Norman dedicated to a villager. building - these carvings are still there. The steps beside the pulpit would have continued up and round so the priest could read the gospel high up within the Chancel Arch. The pulpit is a strange 1900s curved cast concrete affair carved with a triangle and circle design taken from Ruskin’s Stones of Venice.

The encaustic floor tiles in the Chancel St John the Baptist Colerne: Carved Stone are from Hereford Cathedral. Panel on the North Wall THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 24 originally a C12th enclosed Becket Chapel. The core of the church is C14th with a beautiful simply carved chancel arch. The North Aisle is 1713 and the South Aisle 1834. The West Window is 1991 by Potter of Bath featuring Becket and Henry II. Behind the stone carved Reredos was a hidden storage area with a lovely carved diaper pattern on the East Wall. For me the stand out here was the Speke Memorial on the South Wall.

St Christopher, Ditteridge The Architect E W Godwin lifted the Norman porch in the 1900s and the wall painting of St Christopher originally opposite the porch has been replicated on canvas by John Ayers and a local artist. The Millenium organ case was made from a local oak tree as old as the church. We loved this church and John was an exciting guide.

Downhill to St Thomas a Becket, Box. I got muddled here, it is a big busy muddling church.

St Thomas a Becket Box: Speke Memorial A scrumptious lunch at The Methuen Arms in Corsham was followed by our visit to St Bartholomew’s Church St Thomas a Becket Box: Stone carved a Grade 1 Church which sits beside diaper pattern Corsham Court home of the Methuen Start with the dedication to Becket family. 1170 and the Hazelbury Chapel a corner on the North wall which was Again a Saxon foundation, Norman 25 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 his widow to dance on his grave and the 1753 tomb of Sarah Jarvis who ‘sometime before her death she had fresh teeth’

St James, North Wraxall was clothed internally in scaffolding but Lord King gave a spirited account of the Church and of the Norman origins of St Bartholomew’s Church Corsham the area. Most notable is the Norman South doorway with human head arcades, C13th South Aisle, C14th imposts and guardian dragons, North Aisle, C15th Lady Chapel scallop capitals, chevron band and dedicated to the Fullers of Neston with pellets. the enormous tomb of Thomas Tropenell of Great Chalfield builder Thereafter C13th. The North Aisle is a of the chapel, C19th Methuen family Methuen Chapel with a painted chapel on the North Aisle with the ceiling and the vast marble tomb of alabaster tomb of painter Lady Paul Methuen 1837 by Westmacott. Eleanor Methuen. The Chancel rebuilt The reredos is a strange disconcerting in 1874 by Street subtly out of line painting redolent of King’s College with the nave and a new tower and Cambridge in shape and frame but steeple over the choir vestry. On the not by Reubens and so wrong. A small South a 1928 copy of the C15th Rood Grade 1 Church. Tea and cake and Screen on the North. A superb East home. window by Kempe.

In the church yard, dominated by Thank you to Edward Buchan for many table-top tombs, there is a organising and leading this journey pyramid stone purported to be round these churches of North West designed by a man who did not want Wiltshire.

St James North Wraxall: Norman Arch

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 26 Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust Treasurer’s report For the year ended 31st March 2017 by Peter Smith, Hon. Treasurer

The net assets of the Trust stood at The Trust’s other siginicant income was £295,000 as at 31st March 2017 raised by Ride & Stride £53,000; (£249k, 2016). Investments £10,100 and Parish Donations £4,500. The gross income of the Trust for the year was just over £94,000 The WHCT gave 30 grants totalling (£96k, 2016). £58,150 for the year to 31st March 2017. The Friemds made a profit of £23,950 for the year (£26k, 2016). This comprised £14,170 from Membership Full details of the Audited Accounts Fees and Gift Aid; £6010 (after for the year ended 31st March 2017 expenses) from fund raising activities; are available for viewing online at the £2350 from donations; £735 from Charity Commission website (www. ongoing sales of Brian Woodruffe’s charitycommission.gov.uk) by book “The Parish Churches of entering the WHCT’s Registered Wiltshire”; and £685 from the sale of Charity Number 1075598. Christmas Cards.

Doom painting at St. Thomas and St. Edmund, Salisbury

Thank you to all those who supplied images for this newsletter - Brian Woodruffe, Glyn Bridges, Charles Graham, Nigel Jackson and John Price.

27 THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 St Mary and St Nicholas, Wilton

Legacies

Please remember the Wiltshire Historic Churches Trust in your Will. The Registered Charity number of the WHCT is 1075598.

THE FRIENDS OF WILTSHIRE CHURCHES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 28 Detail of graffiti lit by torch at St Mary the Virgin, Calstone Wellington