Photos of Temple Guiting, Gloucestershire, St Mary's Church

Here are a few photos St Mary's church, Temple Guiting. This is a fascinating church, juxtaposing in one location elegant Georgian architecture with a collection of superb medieval carved heads.

Looking down the nave to the west door

The north windows of the nave, with classical arches

Starting at the west end of the south wall of the chancel are a wonderful row of carved heads.. If you follow these photos in order we'll see the carved heads in order around the chancel. to the south side

A very happy looking carved figure

Many of the Temple Guiting corbel table figures are quite similar to the more famous figures at Kilpeck in Herefordshire

Carved head of a beast in the corbel table

Carved corbel head

This figure is quite similar to the previous head

A beast, perhaps a dog?

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Visiting St Mary's church, Temple Guiting
Historic churches in Gloucestershire