Gloucestershire Photos by Hetty
22nd April 2018
A visit with Stroud U3A Church History and Architecture Group
St Mathews Church, Coates, dates from the 13th century
A small door
Norman doorway
Silver dove on the chandelier
In the tower
Tudor doorway
2 children of this family died on the same day
Norman font
Anthropophagous grotesque – he is eating a man
Early 15th century tower
Near the church we spotted this
We also walked to the canal Map of walk
The canal is dry here
Skew railway bridge
Coates Roundhouse built 1790 as a lengthsman’s cottage. It had an inverted roof to collect rain water
There is water here
The Coates entrance to the Sapperton Tunnel
Tunnel House Inn – originally for the navvies building the canal in the 1780s
From above the canal portal
Link to more U3A church visits