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Other Places of Worship in this Area Ampney St Peter, St Peter's Church (0.39m.) Ampney Crucis, Ampney Crucis Cemetery (0.44m.) Ampney Crucis, Primitive Methodist Chapel (Demolished) (0.64m.) Ampney Crucis, Church of the Holy Rood (0.69m.) Harnhill, St Michael's Church (0.78m.) Driffield, St Mary's Church (1.1m.) Poulton, Church of St Mary the Virgin (1.52m.) Poulton, St Michael & All Angels Church (1.54m.) Poulton, Mission Room (1.63m.) Preston, Cirencester, All Saints Church (2.01m.) Barnsley, St Mary the Virgin's Church (2.21m.) Siddington, Friends Burial Ground (2.63m.) Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.

We have 4 Images Above Photograph(s) Copyright of Alf Beard/Phil Draper Church Crawler's Flickr site St Mary's Church, Ampney St Mary St Mary's Church, Ampney Brook, Ampney St Mary, Gloucestershire. Cemeteries This Church had a graveyard. Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all. Church History This Place of Worship was founded in the 12th century, though it is now closed, but we don't yet know when. St Mary's Church lies about a mile to the east of the village, now isolated in fields by the bank of Ampney Brook. It is very small, with just a nave and chancel, and used to be covered in ivy, hence its name of the "Ivy Church". It is now cut off from the present village of Ampney St Mary by the busy A417. The usual reason given for this is that the settlement surrounding the church was abandoned after the 15th century after an outbreak of the Black Death, and villagers moved to a hamlet to the north, formerly called Ashbrook. Looking at the area around the church today, close to the brook, suggests to me an equally likely reason, of the course of the brook changing, or becoming more prone to flooding, and the land became too wet for habitation. There may be more information available by by selecting one or more of the accompanying images on the right. Denomination Now or formerly Church of England. If more than one congregation has worshipped here, or its congregation has united with others, in most cases this will record its original dedication. Maps This Church was located at OS grid reference SP0756301537. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: St Mary's Church, Ampney St Mary shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Ampney St Mary shown on a Google Map. Streetmap.co.uk (arrow on map shows the Place of Worship's location) (verified 2018-10-15) Bing (Ordnance Survey option) (verified 2018-10-13) Bing Maps ('Bird's Eye' View) (verified 2018-10-15) Ordnance Survey "getamap" (NB some of the 'Change Map' options may require a subscription) (verified 2018-10-15) OpenStreetMap (Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA) (verified 2018-10-15) A Vision of Britain Through Time - useful for Boundary Changes (verified 2018-10-15) www.magic.gov.uk (Modern Maps with various overlays) (verified 2018-10-15) Information last updated on 20 Feb 2013 at 13:07.

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This Report was created 25 Dec 2024 - 02:58:41 GMT from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 13 Oct 2021 at 14:13.