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		<title>Church wall paintings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church wall paintings Church wall paintings The modern facade of many small churches hides a colourful past. Today&#39;s unadorned walls belie the glorious decor commonplace before the English Reformation. Pre-reformation churches were aglow with colour and images covering every flat surface. The art told a graphic story, an effective method of communicating to medieval England [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church monuments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Church monuments Church monuments Tombs and monuments in churches are wonderful records of social, religious and individual history. Most ordinary people were buried outside churches in consecrated ground, these were marked with only the simplest wooden markers that obviously have not survived over time. It is important to remember that tombs and monuments were very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chantry chapels</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chantry chapels Chantry chapels A chantry is a special, often private, chapel within a church dedicated to a particular benefactor or benefactor&apos;s family. It is where prayers for the benefactor&apos;s soul were said. Many Chantry chapels are extremely ornate and would have been costly to build. Some were added to the original church structure as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside the church 

 To fully inv</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inside the church To fully inv Inside the church To fully investigate a historic church you should look at the artefacts kept inside. You might find battle flags, armour, paintings, statuary and other historic items giving a sense of the people using the church over the generations. Keep a good look out for an Aumbrie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the church made of?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the church made of? What is the church made of? Churches are usually built from local materials fitting with their surroundings. So churches in Sussex are often built using flints while churches in the Cotswolds are constructed from limestone. West Country (Devon and Somerset) churches are often built of red sandstone. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yew trees</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yew trees Yew trees Old churches are often surrounded by thick Yew hedges or have Yew trees within the churchyard itself. The thickly branched Yew provides a certain amount of protection for the church fabric. In 1307, Edward I ordered that Yew trees be planted in churchyards to protect the buildings from high winds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A walk around the churchyard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A walk around the churchyard A walk around the churchyard The churchyard around the main building is a common feature of UK churches. Often full of fascinating headstones and monuments, it can be a great resource. Before you begin to explore inside the churchyard, take a walk around the outside and have a look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Introduction Churches are the tangible remains of a time when religion intertwined with every aspect of society. From christening to funeral, the church ushered our ancestors in and out of this world. Almost every village in the UK has a fabulous old church dating back to Norman or Saxon times. More than 10,000 UK [...]]]></description>
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