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unusual facts about St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick



Ashley Castle

The Church of St Mary the Virgin lies within the outer bailey to the north of the ringwork.

Cleveland Bridge

Named after the 3rd Duke of Cleveland, it spans the River Avon at Bathwick, and enabled further development of Georgian Bath to take place on the south side of the river.

Duke of Rutland

The traditional burial place of the Manners family was St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford.

Gerard Johnson the elder

In 1591, Johnson was commissioned, ostensibly by Roger Manners, 5th Earl of Rutland, but in practicality his mother, to erect two monuments in St Mary the Virgin's Church at Bottesford, Leicestershire, commemorating the 3rd and 4th earls, Edward and John Manners.

Great Pulteney Street

Great Pulteney Street is a grand thoroughfare that connects Bathwick on the east of the River Avon with the City of Bath, England via the Robert Adam designed Pulteney Bridge.

John Pinch the elder

He was surveyor to the Pulteney and Darlington estate and responsible for many of the later Georgian buildings in Bath, especially in Bathwick.

Johnstone Street, Bath

Johnstone Street in the Bathwick area of Bath, Somerset, England was designed in 1788 by Thomas Baldwin, with some of the buildings being completed around 1805-1810 by John Pinch the elder.

Laura Place, Bath

Laura Place Bathwick, Bath, Somerset, England, consists of four blocks of houses around an irregular quadrangle at the end of Pulteney Bridge.

Linslade

But in the 15th century, the original 12th-century church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, was rebuilt.

St Andrew's Church, Church Road, Hove

Charlotte Elliott, the hymn writer, and her brothers Rev. Henry Venn Elliott and Rev. Edward Bishop Elliott (associated with the curacies of St Mary the Virgin Church and St Mark's Church respectively) are all buried there.

St Mary the Virgin, Acocks Green

He was wounded at Vermelles on 13 October 1915 during the attacks made by the Territorial Battalions of the North and South Staffordshire Regt.

On the south side, there is the grave of Staff Sgt. Gordon Grant Helm, Royal Army Pay Corps.

St Mary the Virgin, Bathwick

The Church of St Mary the Virgin was where the band Muse recorded the organ parts on their second studio album Origin of Symmetry.

St Mary the Virgin, Gillingham, Dorset

On the north wall of the chancel, only two feet above the floor, can be seen the archway of an Easter Sepulchre.

St Mary the Virgin, Middleton

In 1494, a chantry chapel dedicated to St Mary the Virgin was endowed by Gilbert Leygh in Middleton It closed at the time of the Reformation.

The Brandlings owned the Middleton Collieries and built the Middleton Railway.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, Fawley

The design of the mausoleum is based on that of Cecilia Metella on the Appian Way near Rome.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, Little Bromley

The stained glass in the north and south windows dates from the 20th century, and depicts Archbishop Laud and Charles I.

St Mary the Virgin's Church, North Stoke

The Trust administers five former churches in West Sussex; the others are at Chichester, Church Norton, Tortington and Warminghurst.

Sydney Gardens

The gardens were constructed in the 1790s opening in 1795 as a commercial pleasure grounds, following the development of Bathwick by Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet across the River Avon from the city centre.


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