Wickhamford's handsome limestone church makes a wonderful composition with the large half timbered manor house next door, bought in 1549 by the Sandys family.
Wickhamford, Worcestershire
It had formerly been a grange of Evesham Abbey. It later became the home of George Lees-Milne, who restored the church in 1949, and his son James, the architectural historian and conservationist who was a leading light of the National Trust in its early days.
A previous restoration in the 17th century gave the church much of its character and its furnishings, but the core is 13th and 14th century.
A medieval wall painting survives in the chancel, where there is also a 17th century memorial to Sir Samuel and Sir Edwin Sandys and their wives. Father and son both died in the same year, 1623.
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.
Barton-On-The-Heath, Warwickshire
Little Compton, Warwickshire
