A lovely north Cotswold village with some attractive medieval
and Tudor cottages.
Entering the village from the Winchcombe road you come to this lovely old cottage, featuring a wonderful example of cruck framing.
Detail of cruck framing with supporting half-timbering.
Here you see the bones and the flesh of a medieval cottage! The bones are the half-timbers, while the flesh is infill between the timbers. Originally much of the infill would be simple wattle and daub, or plaster; later, bricks were used, as here.
Beside the parish church is this lovely, rambling Tudor house.
Detail of a half-timbered Elizabethan gable.
The parish church of St George, Didbrook.
The church is entered through a west door, which leads straight into a huge, aisleless interior much like a very large barn.
The west door is riddled with musket holes left when Lancastrian soldiers fleeing the Battle of Tewkesbury were pursued and killed here by their Yorkist foes.
The nave roof, an excellent example of what is termed 'open-trussed rafter and queen post' construction.
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