This small church nestles on the side of a rolling landscape at one edge of the village. There is some evidence that its origins are late Saxon, with the main structure being Norman, dating around 1070. It has a most peaceful atmosphere, and is one of only five churches in the Cotswolds with no east window. It has a good ring of six bells in the saddle-back roofed tower.
Winstone is the second highest village in the Cotswolds (by only 25 feet !), about a mile from the A417 “Ermin Street”. It is a small village of about 96 houses, in the centre of the Benefice, with about 300 people of mixed demographic.
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