John Wilkes of Cam
near Dursley, Gloucestershire
The Gloucestershire Photo Library
Page composition by
Allan Taylor of Vancouver, Canada
http://www.allthecotswolds.com
Forthampton is a very beautiful straggling village typical of those in nearby Worcestershire. Half timbered houses abound.
St. Mary's is a much altered church consisting of a nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower, and south porch. The tower is 13th Century with massive diagonal west buttresses and a stair-vice on the north-east corner. The tower has three stages and a plain parapet. The font is a memorial to Susan Plumtre who died in 1849. It is elaborately fashioned in stone and marbles. There is stained glass in the church - in the west window of the north aisle - by Clayton & Bell, 1862.
In the churchyard, there is a whipping post and stocks, west of the church. The post has manacles and there are stocks for three.
