old Church of St Mary the Virgin, Clophill

Clophill
Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
OS Grid: TL0918938852 streetmap
LAT/LONG: 52.0373,-0.4096

Now a ruin, the church was built mainly in approximately the fifteenth century, possibly on the site of a former leper colony/hospital. The village migrated further down the hill following a plague. In 1848 the new St. Mary's Church was built in the centre of the village. The old church was abandoned in the 1950s although burials still take place in a new cemetery next to the old graveyard.

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Image 7704 2008-12-17 Old St Mary's Clophill			Image 7703 2008-12-17 Old St Mary,s Clophill
Image 7702 2008-12-17 Old St Mary,s Clophill			Image 7701 2008-12-17 old St Mary, Clophill

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