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Colerne, Side Chapel, St John's Church c.1930
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The interior is much earlier than the exterior. The aisles have Perpendicular windows, but some extensive restoration has spoilt its earlier magnificence. The two Victorian Early English windows and the four-bay arcades of 1200- 10, added since, were overdone. A tomb chest monument to Richard Walmesley, 1893, has a very life-like white marble figure asleep holding a bible. The church also has interesting sculptures, including a cross-shaft said to be one of the best 9th-century crosses in the West Country. Two large fragments show motifs that are intertwined dragons, beautifully carved.

An extract from Wiltshire Churches Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Colerne

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Colerne

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Football

I was born in Box and can remember playing football against Colerne in the late 50s what a slog up road hill , They always won because we were to tired, But downhill all the way back. anyone else remember ?
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Added 29 October 2014

The Colerne Cross Tree, Old And New.
The Colerne 'cross-tree', as it was called, which can be seen at the left side of this photograph of the market square and church, was an elm, I think. It was already looking pretty ancient when I lived there in 1940-42. In fact you can see in the photo, taken some years earlier, that it's hollow at the base. Does anyone know how long it survived? Looking at the place on Google street-view, I ...see more
Colerne, Market Square and Church of St John the Baptist c1930
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Added 30 October 2013

Thickwood Caravan Park
In 1974 my parents lived on a residential Caravan Park (2 Fox Corner, Thickwood Caravan Park, Colerne) and I am after some history of the site, for family tree purposes. They lived there for only approx. 8 months and then moved away. Does anyone have any photos of the old Caravan site locally - perhaps someone in the Parish collates such information? I was told that it was an old Prisoner of War camp, ...see more
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Colerne In The Second World War Continued 2
Following my previous memories, it might be worth mentioning one or two of the Colerne shops and tradesmen. On the south side of the marketplace, opposite the 'cross tree', was a shop, a greengrocer's I think, kept by a man called Louis Jenkins. Further along the High Street, at the corner of Tutton Hill, was a butcher: I don't remember his name; and somewhere near there, on the north ...see more
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