- Cover pic church 1979
South side
Talk outline – we all forget what it was like.
Variety of before and after images changes through time.
Starting with floor plans, courtesy of Norman Granville Evans in the main - Floor Plans 1 – before 1450, Late 1400s
Norman Granville Evans chancel and nave
Mine – addition of tower and side aisles - Floor Plans 2 – 1533 (post Vesey), 1765, 1874-8 (clergy vestry), 1901 (N aisle, choir vestry)
Extensions to aisles (Vesey arms)
Galleries
Vestry, Wilson grave
Victorians, Bidlake - Floor Plans 3 – current plan
- South 1 - Aylesford 1879 (Norman Granville Evans colln)
Explain A’ford and drawing – approx.!! porch, tower, gen look, no gravestones
Similarities, wall railings, lamppost at front. Trees, no ivy, graves - South 2 – c1910, Post 1910
Are railings there?
wall not visible - South 3 – post 1950, 2020
Gravestones and greenery all cleared. No railings, steps up to grass from south path.
Current. Lampposts, planting - West 1 – 1920s, 2006
From booklet of 1929 refurb (but taken before)
Historic England - West 2 – 2015, 2017
Post re-ordering
- Tower (west) 1995, 1996, 2017
Prep for Trinity Centre
- Church (north side) 1878, 1990s
Norman Granville Evans drawing from a lost photo. Ranger’s door, porch
Current view - Vesey Gardens 1 site 1930s, Bateman plan
Unusual – later than pepperpot!
From Vesey Gardens souvenir booklet
Not executed (fountains, statue design tweaks) - Vesey Gardens 2 – 1939, 1942
Newly completed From Vesey Gdns souvenir booklet
Painting by CH Allen – donated to church (Sons of rest) - Church Hill 1 – 1906, 1930s
From Vesey Gdns souvenir booklet
- Church Hill 2 – 1996
Photographer - Tony Evans (Rugeley)
- Church – NE side – 1879, 1996
Norman Granville Evans – post Victorian extension
Post Trinity Centre - Church East side – pre 1960s, today
Shows door originally for children’s gallery, kept for access to organ (pre south chapel refurb as library)
Door blocked in. - Church Grounds 1 – sundial 19c, 1970, c2000
With gnomon (metal bit!)
In need of repair
With benches round (now in piazza) - Church Grounds 2 – 1996, 2017
1996 (Tony Evans – new benches!)
Current view (in snow) - Church Grounds 3 – Dawnay tomb 1895, Car park 1996
This tomb erected 1695 “near the sundial” so we know age of sundial NOT as late as 18th c. demolished 1950
A little further to SW than the tomb - Church Grounds 4 – Mary Ashford – 19th c and today
Tombstone now laid flat. Tomb itself removed (1950)
- Nave and Chancel 1 - looking east – mediaeval 1895
Imagined by Bob Moulder (heritage project 2018)
Benjamin Stone photo (pre painted ceiling, commandments boards – more anon) - Nave and Chancel 2 – 1850s, 1950s
Bob Moulder impressions – pre stained glass, with ch galleries, box pews, pulpit
Chancel floor raised, pews, Canon Boggon, choir - Nave and Chancel 3 – 1980s, 2016
Chancel screen removed 1990s
- Nave and Chancel 4 – 1995, 2016
Laying of Trinity Centre foundation stone (red carpet!)
Post re-ordering - Nave – from North Gallery 2015, 2017
Pews
chairs - Chancel 1 – 1852 Norman Granville Evans interpretation
Pulpit, Q Anne reredos, box pews, level floor
- Chancel 2 – 1970, 1990s
Constantine for 1970 guidebook (red cover)
Keith Jordan – with permission - Nave facing West 1 - 1900-28, 1929
Unpainted ceiling, candlesticks / flower holders? Tower gallery (former altar rail?)
Ceiling, post refurb 1929, lectern (later). Change to W end porch - Nave facing West 2 – 1950-90, 2007
Organ
Flower fest - Commandments Board – 1895, 1990-2016, today
Chancel wall – plus coat of arms (now in tower)
The wooden board with the words of the Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer and Creed in gold on a turquoise background, was made by Brian Dixon, Churchwarden, and Robert Alloway, Chorister, and erected on the corner surrounding the font at the West end of the nave. Following re-ordering in 2016, it now stands in the South West corner of the church.
- North aisle – facing W pre 2016, Facing E – pews half removed, Kitchen 2017
- Vesey aisle – pre 2016 facing W, 2017 – facing E
- Vesey Chapel 1 c1860, 1895
?Grundy – box pews, old windows (pre clergy vestry)
B Stone – Worcester woodwork. Pews face chancel - Vesey Chapel 2 – c1900, 1929 postcard
Aisle extension still
Refurb – note altar - Vesey Chapel 3 – 2001, 2016
Dark wood chairs facing E, priest behind altar
After re-ordering - South Chapel organ 1901-50
Explain mistake in history book!
- Pulpit – 1852, After 1937, C2000, 2017
Grundy again (chancel)
Reay-Nadin memorial on pew
Note change to steps from 1937!
Steps re-made in front of Vesey aisle - Font 1989, 2015, 2016
- Lecterns – eagle lectern, Holbeche
Given 1906
- Mediaeval angels
Under North Gallery, now porch. Originally from nave roof 15c
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