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Other Places of Worship in this Area Elton, St Mary the Virgin (1.32m.) Burrington, St George's Church (1.33m.) Richards Castle, All Saints (2.49m.) Leinthall Starkes, St Mary Magdalene's Church (2.61m.) Downton, St Giles's Church (2.67m.) Leinthall Earles, St Andrew's Church (2.68m.) Ludford, St Giles (3.12m.) Orleton, St George (3.48m.) Wigmore, St James the Apostle's Church (3.63m.) Adforton, St Andrew's Church (3.74m.) Leintwardine, St Mary Magdalene's Church (3.79m.) Leintwardine, Leintwardine Cemetery (3.81m.) Note: distances (in miles) are calculated as the crow flies; it may be further by road or on foot.

Default Image We do not have a Photograph at present. Image by courtesy of openclipart.org St Giles's Church, Aston (Pipe Aston) St Giles's Church, Killhorse Lane, Aston (Pipe Aston), Herefordshire. Cemeteries This Church has (or 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, and we understand it is still open. Herefordshire churches continue to surprise. Here is a dear little church, very simple, with single celled nave, and chancel, and a western bell turret. It is built of buff sandstone, with red sandstone dressings. North and south doorways are Norman; the south doorway is plain, but the north doorway, facing the road, has a large round arched tympanum - described by Pevsner as having a lamb with a cross in a circle, held by the bull of St Luke, and the eagle of St John, with an outer band of animals and foliage. One spray has two birds pecking into it. Inside there is a red Norman ashlar painting "with addorsed flowers on stalks", and a 12th century stone of truncated cone shape, sculpted with a dragon, animal and foliage. Pevsner describes 'addorsed' as "two human figures, animals, or birds, etc, placed symmetrically so that they face each other". The roof has tie-beams, queen-posts, collar-beams and wind-braces; and is said to be 17th century. Just outside the churchyard, on the bank by the side of the road is a large old yew tree, with a twisted trunk. [Sources: The Old Parish Churches of Herefordshire (1998), and Pevsner's Buildings of Herefordshire (1963)] 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 is located at OS grid reference SO4612571798. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window: St Giles's Church, Aston (Pipe Aston) shown on a Google Map. Places of Worship in Aston 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 16 Feb 2012 at 17:42.

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This Report was created 5 Feb 2025 - 06:58:38 GMT from information held in the Herefordshire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 7 Feb 2019 at 13:34.