| Page Views: 203 Last Visit to Fairford: February, 2006 | Fairford Church by illumina - last update: Feb 13, 2006 |
|  | Church St Mary's is a grand Perpendicular wool church, one of the best in the Cotswolds, with fascinating grotesques and gargoyles around the parapets. It was built in 1497, although there are traces of an earlier church in the present building. |
Stained Glass Fairford Church is famous the World over for having the most complete set of late medieval stained glass windows in any parish church in the United Kingdom. | | |
| | Misericords The building's other great treasure is its highly animated and amusing misericords. Carved around 1300, they probably came from Cirencester Abbey at the Dissolution (1540). Unfortunately, one was stolen in recent years and has had to be replaced with a copy. |
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| Pros: | "Beautiful church and countryside" | | Cons: | "Not much else to do." |
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