Description

Identification note: Associated with DZSWS:MSS.4134.1

Summary: 1 colour and 14 black and white photographs of All Saints Church, Froxfield, Wiltshire. (1 - 9 exterior views) 1 - colour, side elevation of the church looking across the iron fence and graveyard. 2 - looking down on the church and village from Rudge Road. 3 - looking past the church porch, down the path, towards the church gate. A flagpole can be seen in the background, walking towards the church is a gentleman in overalls and three girls thought to be (l-r), Pam Kington, Betty Nicholas and Julie Kington. 4 - photograph of a Buckler painting of the church with large house in the background. 5 - looking towards the church, graveyard and adjacent houses from neighbouring fields. 6 - similar view to (5) but closer to the church. 7 - earlier view of the church, graveyard and adjacent houses. 8 - side elevation of the church showing neighbouring trees and shrubs covered in hoar frost. 9 - wooden sign above the church door commemorating the grant of £20, in 1891, by the Incorporated Church Building Society. 10 and 11 - interior views of the church both looking down the nave towards the altar. 12 - detail of a headstone in the graveyard dated 1730, no name of the deceased is given, the inscription reads, "Behold this world is full of crooked streets, Death is the Market place where all men meets, If life was marchantdize that men could buy, The rich wou'd always live the poor must dye". 13 - the font, believed to be 11th century. 14 - members of the church choir c. 1910, (l-r) back row, Frank Noon, Chaeles Plank, George Hatter, Fred Hobbs, Harry Dixon; (l-r) middle row, Miss Bleek, Ethel Chapman, Majorie Hatter, Jim Ashley, Ted Ashley, Dorothy Sandford, Arthur Dopson, Mrs Gulliford; (l-r) front row, ? Coles, Arthur Dixon, Victor Hatter, Revd. Gulliford, Sam Savage, Edgar Dixon, Sydney Witts, Sidney Cook; boys sitting on grass, left unknown, right Norman Barrett. 15 - ladies of the church choir c. 1920, taken outside of the school, (l-r) Doris Wells, Win Dixon, Alice Hatter, Marjory Hatter, Lil Pike, Kath Dixon and Mrs Hobbs.