Church Micro 1057 - South Wingfield Traditional Geocache
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Church Micro 1057 - South Wingfield
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This web address will show you a picture of the 13th century tomb of a Knight of the Crusade buried in South Wingfield churchyard. Thanks to SEJ95 for the info.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39898638@N03/3681164859/
South Wingfield is better known for the hauntingly beautiful romantic ruins of it’s superb fifteenth century Manor House than it is as a village, and appropriately village and manor seem almost completely detached. The Manor, with it’s gaunt towers and empty turrets stands proudly isolated on it’s own hilltop overlooking Wingfield Park to the south, and across a narrow valley separating it from the village, which lies along a ridge of land a quarter of a mile away to the north.
Unusually, the village is also uniquely detached from it’s parish church, which lies half a mile away across the valley on the west bank of the River Amber - in the neighbouring village of Oakerthorpe!
The church of All Saints is mainly thirteenth century, the tower a century later, and the chancel was added in 1877. One possible reason for it’s seemingly strange location so far from the village, is suggested by historian Roy Christian to be because the original Saxon church was built to serve both the settlements of South Wingfield and Oakerthorpe, and was thus sited half way between the two. If this is so, then the reasoning behind the decision remains a mystery when considering the fact that the church was built on the flood plain of the River Amber - and has consequently been flooded on numerous occasions during its long history!
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