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St Mary the Virgin, Ewelme, Oxfordshire
This week’s ‘forgotten church’ is half way up a narrow, nondescript country road just outside the quiet village of Ewelme in Oxfordshire (pronounced yoo-elm) and is absolutely fascinating. Looking like a lego castle, St Mary the Virgin was commissioned to be almost completely rebuilt in the mid fifteenth century by Alice de la Pole, wife of hundred year…
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