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St Mary

St Mary

Lower Slaughter

Gloucestershire

1867 retaining C13 arcade.

Architectural Features

Milward was educated at Rugby School https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/ and Clare College Cambridge https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/ After graduation he joined the textiles firm Glazebrook, Steel & Co https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1967-12-13/debates/a09ee7a8-55e5-4e18-a6e0-4310b249195a/TextileCouncil  During these years he learnt to fly. When war came he joined the Fleet Air Arm https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/fleet-air-arm-during-the-second-world-war After the war he joined BOAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Airways_Corporation then BEA. He rose through the organisation, and was its chairman from 1964 https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1963-11-21a.1187.5 until 1970

Early English and Decorated styles except the restored north arcade which has 3 cylindrical piers with scalloped capitals and pointed chamfered arches: late C12 or early C13 Transitional Norman.

Milward was educated at Rugby School https://www.rugbyschool.co.uk/ and Clare College Cambridge https://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/ After graduation he joined the textiles firm Glazebrook, Steel & Co https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1967-12-13/debates/a09ee7a8-55e5-4e18-a6e0-4310b249195a/TextileCouncil During these years he learnt to fly. When war came he joined the Fleet Air Arm https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/fleet-air-arm-during-the-second-world-war After the war he joined BOAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Airways_Corporation then BEA. He rose through the organisation, and was its chairman from 1964 https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1963-11-21a.1187.5 until 1970

© Basher Eyre

SP1622 : St Mary, Lower Slaughter - Font

Tub font.

SP1622 : St Mary, Lower Slaughter - Font

© John Salmon

C13 piscina in chancel.

SP1622 : St Mary, Lower Slaughter - Stained glass window

Ledgers, C19 brasses and glass to Whitmore family.

SP1622 : St Mary, Lower Slaughter - Stained glass window

© John Salmon