A Knights Templar Church: All Saints Church Down Ampney Gloucestershire

Описание: All Saints Church Down Ampney Gloucestershire England UK.

The church was built by the Knights Templars and consecrated in 1265, and is a fine example of Early English Architecture.

There are two effigy tombs inside, one of Nicolas De Valens, a Templar Knight and Crusader: the other of his noble wife, Maragret Bassett (De Valens).

In the Middle Ages the village suffered from various plagues including the Black Death. The red flowers which decorate the underside of the arches are a reminder of the nursery rhyme ‘Ring a Ring of Roses’, referring to the rash that appeared on the skin.

The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was born at the Vicarage, in the centre of the village, in 1872 while his father was Vicar; the entry of his Baptism is still to be seen in the Register.

His father died three years later and is buried in the churchyard beside the South Transept. Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote many hymn tunes; the tune to the hymn ‘Come down O love divine’ was named ‘Down Ampney’ after his birthplace.

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