
Piscina - St Mary the Virgin - Wansford, Cambridgeshire
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N 52° 34.835 W 000° 25.027
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Piscina in the chancel of St Mary the Virgin church, Wansford.
Waymark Code: WMVP18
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 05/11/2017
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Piscina in the chancel of St Mary the Virgin church, Wansford. Dating to the time of the building of the new chancel in 1902.
"St. Mary’s possibly stands on the site of an earlier, wooden church which – given its location – may have replaced a pre-Christian temple or place of ritual. St. Mary’s is strategically located in a dominant position at the top of the northern slope rising from the old bridge. It is also set at the nodal point of the former Great North Road to London and Scotland and the roads to Leicester, to Northampton, to Peterborough and also the road that wends to the market town Oundle via Yarwell, Nassington and Fotheringhay; latterly where stands the remaining portion of the once great collegiate church and the site of Fotheringhay Castle – the birthplace of King Richard III and the prison and place of execution of Mary Queen of Scots."
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