Burford Parish Church

Our car rental ended May 25th, so, en route to Heathrow and the rental return, we stopped for our last Cotswold visit, at Burford and its five-star church, in Oxfordshire.

As may be inferred here, the church is of a somewhat irregular
"design"

Standard Cotswold; more "bale" tombs in the right center; unique
to the Cotswolds

The tower, spire, and its scary exterior ladder

"Plan," or how all the successive plans ended up by the 15th century;
the tower was built in 1170

Helpful model #11,703; early Victorian

Nave

Roof, completed 1475, a bit of the elevation

Some of the side halls are on a split-level basis,
seen in south Florida residential architecture in 
the 1950s

Tower; note the non-pointy windows

Thus

Organ

Tansfield tomb...benefactors

Tower clock...on such a large frame to permit the
swinging of the pendulum

East window, 14th century, though "much restored," Biblical
scenes and figures

Elsewhere, and strangely, a print copy of van Eyck's Adoration
of the Mystic Lamb, 1432, from St. Bavo's in Ghent; much of the
Wool Trade went to Flemish cities like Bruge and Ghent for weaving;
so I surmise; among my two or three favorites. so no worries

Baptismal font, thought to be 12th century

Tomb of Edmund Harman, barber and surgeon
to Henry VIII; thought to be the first depiction of
native Americans in Britain

Pulpit, 15th, some of the color is original

Way high up somewhere, a very old green man

Also now the social hall

A bit of the exterior sculpture program

Carrying on into pretty Burford

Among the many interesting shops

Main drag

Two very old buildings subsiding into each other...pretty normal
for this age of architecture; the appearance of an Orvis was disturbing...
until we noticed it had gone out of business

1,293.9 miles on our garden/houses/churches
campaign of 2022; Vicki was amply relieved to
ditch the car and not be on these roads anymore...