St Mary's Church
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1 - 3. St Mary's Church, Marsh Gibbon,
is set in a picturesque village close to the Buckingham - Oxford
border, and about six miles north-east of Bicester. Set fairly
high above the street, the entrance to the church is through a
lych-gate, and thence surrounded by shaped yew trees.
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5 - The church from the north-west. Note
the large north transept which matches that on the south
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6 - Looking west
to the ringers' gallery over the newly installed kitchen. There may
formerly have been a west gallery for the quire, but of there was, there
is now no trace. The usual extensive Victorian restoration work was
carried out to the church in the mid nineteenth century, but VCH
makes no mention of the removal of any gallery.
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7 - View from the
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8 - Friendly Societies were common during the
latter part of the nineteenth century, but it is uncommon for
their flags and pennants to survive. These two, the blue one
dated 1788, are hung in the north transept.
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This church is included especially because of
its association with music known to have been sung and played
here, this being ascertained through the fortuitous discovery of
a manuscript quire book in a car boot sale in Herefordshire.
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12 - Many villages had their biers for the
transportation of the dead to church for burial. This example,
although undated, is typical of those found in the late
eighteenth century in this area. [See also Brailes
in Warwickshire.]
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13 - The adjacent farm house, a splendid
example of a timber-framed building, added to in Tudor times
(the two centre bays), and over the centuries thereafter. |
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Dove's reference for the bells:
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[27/10/01] Marsh
Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, St Mary the Virgin, 5,
13cwt in G. [Alternate Tuesdays with Twyford
- emlm]
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| Map reference : SP647233 The church stands on
the left hand side of the road, just east of the
cross-roads in the centre of the village, on the
road leading to Poundon and Twyford. The
church is kept open during the hours of daylight
(information from a local ringer).
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Photographs: ©
Edwin Macadam
2002
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