South side
Talk outline – we all forget what it was like.
Variety of before and after images changes through time.
Starting with floor plans, courtesy of NGE in the main

Norman Granville Evans chancel and nave
Mine – addition of tower and side aisles

Extensions to aisles (Vesey arms)
Galleries
Vestry, Wilson grave
Victorians, Bidlake

Explain A’ford and drawing – approx.!! porch, tower, gen look, no gravestones
Similarities, wall railings, lamppost at front. Trees, no ivy, graves

Are railings there?
wall not visible

Gravestones and greenery all cleared. No railings, steps up to grass from south path.
Current.  Lampposts, planting

From booklet of 1929 refurb (but taken before)
Historic England

Post re-ordering

Prep for TC

Norman Granville Evans drawing from a lost photo. Ranger’s door, porch
Current view

Unusual – later than pepperpot!
From Vesey Gardens souvenir booklet
Not executed (fountains, statue design tweaks)

Newly completed  From Vesey Gdns souvenir booklet
Painting by CH Allen – donated to church (Sons of rest)

From Vesey Gdns souvenir booklet

Photographer - Tony Evans (Rugeley)

Norman Granville Evans – post Victorian extension
Post TC

Shows door originally for children’s gallery, kept for access to organ (pre south chapel refurb as library)
Door blocked in.

With gnomon (metal bit!)
In need of repair
With benches round (now in piazza)

1996 (Tony Evans – new benches!)
Current view (in snow)

This tomb erected 1695 “near the sundial” so we know age of sundial NOT as late as 18^th c.  demolished 1950
A little further to SW than the tomb

Tombstone now laid flat. Tomb itself removed (1950)

Imagined by Bob Moulder (heritage project 2018)
Benjamin Stone photo (pre painted ceiling, commandments boards – more anon)

Bob Moulder impressions – pre stained glass, with ch galleries, box pews, pulpit
Chancel floor raised, pews, Canon Boggon, choir

Chancel screen removed 1990s

Laying of TC foundation stone (red carpet!)
Post re-ordering

Pews
chairs

Pulpit, Q Anne reredos, box pews, level floor

Constantine for 1970 guidebook (red cover)
Keith Jordan – with permission

Unpainted ceiling, candlesticks / flower holders? Tower gallery (former altar rail?)
Ceiling, post refurb 1929, lectern (later). Change to W end porch

Organ
Flower fest

Chancel wall – plus coat of arms (now in tower)

The wooden board with the words of the Ten Commandments, Lord's Prayer and Creed in gold on a turquoise background, was made by Brian Dixon, Churchwarden, and Robert Alloway, Chorister, and erected on the corner surrounding the font at the West end of the nave.  Following re-ordering in 2016, it now stands in the South West corner of the church.

?Grundy – box pews, old windows (pre clergy vestry)
B Stone – Worcester woodwork. Pews face chancel

Aisle extension still
Refurb – note altar

Dark wood chairs facing E, priest behind altar
After re-ordering

Explain mistake in history book!

Grundy again (chancel)
Reay-Nadin memorial on pew
Note change to steps from 1937!
Steps re-made in front of Vesey aisle

Given 1906

Under North Gallery, now porch.  Originally from nave roof 15c