St Mary Church Prestwich
A slightly different perspective on St Mary's Church in Prestwich..
Still need a gimble to eliminate the shaking.
St Mary The Virgin Church Prestwich, Manchester By Drone
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is on Church Lane, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Radcliffe and Prestwich, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester.The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. Pevsner refers to it as a major church.The church is constructed in red sandstone with stone slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, a three-bay chancel with a clerestory rising higher than that of the nave, north and south aisles, north and south porches, and a west tower. The two eastern bays of the north aisle comprise the Wilton Chapel, the work of Paley and Austin in 1872. There is some doubt as to whether it is original Paley and Austin or a rebuild of something earlier. Of this chapel Pevsner writes the uncusped tracery is almost convincing Henry VIII but not quite. Beyond the Wilton Chapel are the organ chamber and the choir vestry. On the south of the church the Lever Chapel occupies a corresponding position to the Wilton Chapel, and to the east of this is the Birch (or Lady) Chapel.The tower is in three stages and rises to a height of 86 feet (26 m). It has a buttress at each corner, and a stair turret in the northeast corner. In the bottom stage is a doorway above which is a three-light window. In the middle stage on the west side is a two-light square-headed window. At a higher level in this stage are clock faces on the north, south and east sides. A reference in the churchwarden’s accounts notes that there was a clock in the tower in 1656.The top stage contains a three-light louvred bell opening on each side, and above them a string course with gargoyles. At the top of the tower is an embattled parapet, and it is surmounted by a pyramidal roof with a weathervane. Both aisles have two cusped, tracery-less, three-light windows and above them are three three-light square-headed, mullioned windows. At the west end of the north aisle is a Decorated two-light window,and at the west end of the south aisle the window has three lights. The clerestory has a range of two-light square-headed windows on each side. The Lever chapel has two four-light windows, and in the Wilton chapel are three three-light windows.[5] The east window of the chancel has seven lights and contains Perpendicular tracery.The south porch is dated 1756.
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Prestwich St Mary's Churchyard Tour with Bill Cottam
A tour of the Churchyard of St Mary's in Prestwich, Manchester.
St Mary's Church was built on high ground within a roughly circular area, and the word Prestwich is Old English for dwelling of the priest both indicative of Anglo-Saxon Origins. The earliest documented evidence however dates form the 12 Century.
The graves include William Sturgeon, inventor of the electromagnet and the Artisan Naturalists.
War Grave Map:
Credit to Eddy Finch at maidstone.blog for the audio track
Sunday church bells of St Mary's Prestwich
A short shaky video of the birds singing and the church bells ringing
St Mary's Hidden Gem Church Manchester Nov 2015
St Mary, God, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Hidden Gem,
St Marys Flower garden, Prestwich, Manchester
Views of and above St Marys Flower garden, Prestwich, Manchester
St Mary's Church
The bells of St Mary's Church, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire, England. 21st February 1015
Saint Mary's Church Rosliston South Derbyshire UK 2017
Saint Mary's Church is the only church in the beautiful village of Rosliston in South Derbyshire United Kingdom. It is located close to the Rosliston Forestry Center with a footpath connecting the two.
Greystoke bells
The fine 14th Century Collegiate church of St Andrew, Greystoke has six bells. Three date from before the Reformation, and they were augmented to six bells as one of the Millenium projects for belfries in England
Churches Together walk of witness
Churches Together Good Friday 2014 walk of witness from St Mary's Prestwich to Tesco Prestwich
St Peter's Church, Chailey
Whittlesey St. Mary
This is not so much a cemetery as the area around the church which WAS a cemetery. All the grave markers have been moved against walls (as can be seen in the video); some of them have clear lettering but most are eroded. Over the road is a another ex-cemetery area which has also been cleared and turned into a garden to sit in and enjoy. Whittlesey cemetery is a little distance away.
Laser Scanning Timelapse Nantwich St Mary's Church
Timelapse of laser scanning of St Mary's Church in Nantwich for University of Liverpool research project
Looking around St Mary the Virgin, Benfleet, churchyard
It will be some time before I am back in this place, so I took a slow stroll around the yard whilst waiting for things to happen. Later on, there was a service and then a study session.
Prestwich views
A view from my window over 90 minutes or so
Send Church St Mary the Virgin
A flight over and in this gorgeous church with DJI 450 and DJI Osmo.
Good Friday walk of witness 2014
People from churches in Prestwich and Kersal walked from St Mary's Prestwich to Tesco Prestwich and had a short service there on Good Friday 2014
St Marys Church Hanwell. London
Hanwells oldest church.