Friends Meeting House
Broad Campden, Gloucestershire
The Meeting House dates to 1663, making it the earliest in the country still in use.
Chipping Campden is one of the loveliest Cotswolds towns, packed with buildings made from the famous honey coloured stone.
Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire
Its church is perfectly placed on a small hill away from the hurly burly of the High Street, but still feeling very much part of the town.
The tower is the first thing you see: solid and square, it was built in about 1500 and has a symmetry that makes it graceful for all its great size. It houses eight bells that date from 1618 to 1737, and a clock mechanism that was made in 1695, though this was retired in 1962 when a new mechanism was installed.
The nave was rebuilt at about the same time, resulting in a feeling of great harmony throughout the building. Inside, the first impression is of grace and light, highlighted by the window over the nave arch, a Cotswolds speciality.
Treasures include a unique pair of altar hangings from about 1400. There are also excellent monuments, many to the rich wool merchants who poured their wealth into the creation of the building.
Broad Campden, Gloucestershire
The Meeting House dates to 1663, making it the earliest in the country still in use.
Blockley, Gloucestershire
Full of human interest and interwoven with the people of this place for more than a thousand years, the church has survived good times and bad, and in the process has been altered, extended, and embellished.
Willersey, Gloucestershire
This beautiful, ancient parish church in Cotswold stone is remarkable for being cruciform and serves the idyllic villages of Willersey and Saintbury.