English Heritage sites near Guiting Power Parish
HAILES ABBEY
4 miles from Guiting Power Parish
Founded by the Earl of Cornwall in thanks for surviving a shipwreck. It housed a renowned relic, ‘the Holy Blood of Hailes’: allegedly a phial of Christ’s blood. Great picnic spot. Audio tours.
BELAS KNAP LONG BARROW
4 miles from Guiting Power Parish
A particularly fine example of a Neolithic long barrow of c.3800 BC, featuring a false entrance and side chambers. During excavations in the 1860s, the remains of 31 people were found in the chambers.
ROLLRIGHT STONES
13 miles from Guiting Power Parish
Traditionally a monarch and his courtiers petrified by a witch, the Rollright Stones consist of three groups: the King's Men stone circle; the Whispering Knights burial chamber; and the single King Stone. They span nearly 2,000 years of Neolithic and Bronze Age development.
GREAT WITCOMBE ROMAN VILLA
14 miles from Guiting Power Parish
The remains of a large and luxurious villa built about AD 250, with a bathhouse complex, perhaps the shrine of a water spirit, and mosaics.
ODDA'S CHAPEL
14 miles from Guiting Power Parish
One of the most complete surviving Saxon churches in England, this chapel was built in 1056 by Earl Odda, and rediscovered in 1865 subsumed into a farmhouse. Nearby is the famous Saxon parish church.
CIRENCESTER AMPHITHEATRE
15 miles from Guiting Power Parish
The earthwork remains of one of the largest Roman amphitheatres in Britain, built in the early 2nd century to serve the important city of Corinium, now Cirencester.
Churches in Guiting Power Parish
St. Michael & All Angels
Church Lane
Guiting Power
(01451) 851806
http://www.guitingevents.com
A warm welcome is extended to all who visit our beautiful Grade II* church for quiet reflection or one of our services conducted by one of our much valued clergy team, led by the Rector, Rev'd Katrina Scott, telephone 01451 851777 or e-mail [email protected]
Guiting Power lies in a fold of the Cotswold Hills on the road between Winchcombe and Stow-on-the-Wold and stands 600 to 700 feet above sea level. The River Windrush, a tributary of The River Thames, flows through the parish and provides part of its name from the Anglo Saxon word "gyte" meaning a pouring out/a torrent. The Le Poer family, hence the suffix Power, were principal landowners in the parish in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The church at one time was at the centre of the medieval village, but the houses which once surrounded it have long since gone. St. Michael's Church was built in Norman times (thought to be about 1180) and has two ornamental Norman doorways. The church was acquired by the Knights Hospitaller between 1218 & 1279. The De Lacy family gifted the lands of the Guiting Estate, and the church of St. Mary in Temple Guiting, to the Order of the Knights Templar, with the Preceptory being located at Temple Guiting.
The Chancel was twice rebuilt, first in the late twelfth century, and again during extensive renovation in 1903. The Early English priest's door and low window in the south well were, however, left untouched. The Tower was added in the fifteenth century, and during the nineteenth century two Transcepts were added to the accommodate the increased population and growing congregation. The North Transcept in 1820, and the South Transcept in 1844. The Norman south doorway was moved to the end of the South Transcept and given a new tympanum with carved hour glass. The Nave roof is partly fifteenth century with six stone corbels, to which were added, at the western end, stone heads of Edward VII & Queen Alexandra, the reigning Monarchs at the time of the 1903 restorations. Carved heads of the ‘Green Man' are to be found in the Nave roof, and the remains of a wall painting on the north side Nave wall. The Font is fifteenth century and the Pipe Organ was installed in 1978.
The church is open daily and we warmly look forward to your visit.
Pubs in Guiting Power Parish
Farmers Arms
Winchcombe Road, Guiting Power, GL54 5TZ
(01451) 850358
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Hollow Bottom
Winchcombe Road, Guiting Power, GL54 5UX
(01451) 850392
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