Cotswolds Temple Guiting-008 St Mary C18 decalogue recently restored and placed on the nave north wall
Places to visit in and around Stratford: Temple Guiting
The villages of Temple Guiting and Guiting Power were known as Upper and Lower Guiting, they were renamed in the 19th century. Temple Guiting is built on the steep slopes of a valley through which the River Windrush flows.
Temple Guiting takes it’s name from the Knights Templar who were given lands here by Gilbert de Lacy and Roger de Waterville in the middle of the 12th century. A Templar preceptory was founded to administer these properties, they built the present parish church in 1170.The preceptory consisted of serving brethren, a chaplain and one or more knights under a preceptor, a knight who gathered revenues to be sent to their order in Palestine. The Templars were suppressed by pope Clement V, on the 8th January 1308, the Templars were arrested under orders from Edward II who seized their properties. John de Coningston, the preceptor of Guiting was detained and sent to London, Templars were examined and tortured, eventually the belief that their master could grant absolution from sin brought the charge of heresy. They made a public abjuration of error in June 1311, were absolved and reconciled to the church but their lands were confiscated. John de Coningston and six other Templars did penance at monastries in the diocese of Worcester where they were maintained by a charge on their lands at Temple Guiting.
The south and north chancel walls of the church with their corbel table, the south wall of the nave, the winged lion corbel now in the chancel, some carved fragments in the porch and the capitals of the tower arch are survivors from the Templar church. In the 13th century the east end of the chancel was altered, the remains of two chancel windows and a corbel in the porch are of this period. 14th century work includes the north chapel with its piscina and aumbry, the low window of the south wall and the north and south chancel windows. The 15th and 16th centuries saw the addition of battlements, the east window, nave and north chapel windows, the priest’s door and the font. The west tower and it’s bells are 17th century. 18th century features include the westernmost nave windows, the north window of the north chapel, the Royal Arms, a hatchment and a gilded decalogue. The north porch and the chancel and north chapel arches are 19th century.
The church has three panels of 15th century stained glass depicting Mary Magdalene, James the Lesser and the Virgin Mary. There is also a beautiful modern window by Tom Denny.
Temple Guiting lies between Stow-on-the Wold and Winchcombe about an hour from Stratford-upon-Avon, Adam Henson’s Cotswold Farm Park is nearby.
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Cotswolds Temple Guiting-008 St Mary C18 decalogue recently restored and placed on the nave north wall
Places to visit in and around Stratford: Temple Guiting
The villages of Temple Guiting and Guiting Power were known as Upper and Lower Guiting, they were renamed in the 19th century. Temple Guiting is built on the steep slopes of a valley through which the River Windrush flows.
Temple Guiting takes it’s name from the Knights Templar who were given lands here by Gilbert de Lacy and Roger de Waterville in the middle of the 12th century. A Templar preceptory was founded to administer these properties, they built the present parish church in 1170.The preceptory consisted of serving brethren, a chaplain and one or more knights under a preceptor, a knight who gathered revenues to be sent to their order in Palestine. The Templars were suppressed by pope Clement V, on the 8th January 1308, the Templars were arrested under orders from Edward II who seized their properties. John de Coningston, the preceptor of Guiting was detained and sent to London, Templars were examined and tortured, eventually the belief that their master could grant absolution from sin brought the charge of heresy. They made a public abjuration of error in June 1311, were absolved and reconciled to the church but their lands were confiscated. John de Coningston and six other Templars did penance at monastries in the diocese of Worcester where they were maintained by a charge on their lands at Temple Guiting.
The south and north chancel walls of the church with their corbel table, the south wall of the nave, the winged lion corbel now in the chancel, some carved fragments in the porch and the capitals of the tower arch are survivors from the Templar church. In the 13th century the east end of the chancel was altered, the remains of two chancel windows and a corbel in the porch are of this period. 14th century work includes the north chapel with its piscina and aumbry, the low window of the south wall and the north and south chancel windows. The 15th and 16th centuries saw the addition of battlements, the east window, nave and north chapel windows, the priest’s door and the font. The west tower and it’s bells are 17th century. 18th century features include the westernmost nave windows, the north window of the north chapel, the Royal Arms, a hatchment and a gilded decalogue. The north porch and the chancel and north chapel arches are 19th century.
The church has three panels of 15th century stained glass depicting Mary Magdalene, James the Lesser and the Virgin Mary. There is also a beautiful modern window by Tom Denny.
Temple Guiting lies between Stow-on-the Wold and Winchcombe about an hour from Stratford-upon-Avon, Adam Henson’s Cotswold Farm Park is nearby.
www.youtube.com/user/Cotswoldchurches