St Mary's is in a most attractive setting in the Windrush valley near Burford.
Swinbrook, Oxfordshire
The small church has a curious 19th century tower and an enormous east window, which was blown out by an exploding land mine in 1940.
Yet nothing about the unassuming exterior hints at the extraordinary richness of the 17th century monuments inside. They depict six members of the Fettiplace family, one of the great families of Oxfordshire until they died out in the late 18th century. The highly stylised marble effigies, laid out on shelves, each reclines rather raffishly on one elbow.
There are also brasses commemorating other Fettiplaces. Nearby Asthall Manor, the Fettiplace family seat, later became the home of the Mitford family. Four of the six Mitford sisters, Nancy, Unity, Pamela and Diana, are buried in the churchyard along with their parents, Lord and Lady Redesdale. The only Mitford son, Tom, killed in Burma in 1945, has a memorial inside the church.
Petrisw, Powys
Cyrhaeddir yr eglwys hon trwy deithio naill ai ar hyd lonydd troellog sy’n gyforiog o flodau, neu ar hyd llwybr troed. Wrth gyrraedd, fe welwch yr eglwys ganoloesol hon yn sefyll ar lethrau’r Grwyne Fawr, yn edrych heibio cwm bychan at lethrau Mynydd Pen-y-Fâl yr ochr draw.
Marshfield, Gwent
Mae Eglwys St Mair, Maerun, yn eglwys brydferth sy’n dyddio nôl i’r ddeuddegfed ganrif. Yn nythu’n glud yn y llain las rhwng Caerdydd a Chasnewydd, mae bellach yn adnabyddus am fod yn lleoliad ar gyfer un o episodau Dr Who!
Capel y Ffin, Powys
Lleolir eglwys Sant Mair, Capel y Ffin yn nyffryn cudd yr afon Honddu, gyda’r Mynyddoedd Du i’r gorllewin iddi a Chlawdd Offa i’r dwyrain. Mae’n fan lle mae celfyddyd a thirwedd yn ymdoddi i’w gilydd – ac nid yw’n syndod felly iddi ddenu arlunwyr a beirdd am ganrifoedd.
