More about East Tytherton


Compared with some of the more "famous" Wiltshire villages East Tytherton keeps a fairly low profile, but it's a pretty place and well worth a visit. It's a quiet and unassuming village, with a rich variety of architecture. From a couple of formal Georgian Houses, reminiscent of Bath, to Cotswold stone cottages that "look like they growed thur". In between there's Brick, Tudor style half-timbering and corrugated iron. Roofs are stone, tile, slate and again corrugated iron. Here's the village school, appropriately named after Tytherton's Maud Heath.

Ten years on . . .  

Maud Heath's School


At the village end of the causeway at Kellaways, is the tiny St. Giles Church, which so the story goes used to be across the road from where it now stands, but it was overrun by rats from the nearby mill. Apparently it was deemed easier to move the church than move the rats. So, sometime in the early 1800s, that’s what happened..
  

St. Giles Church
St Giles Church 1997 and 2008.


In the centre of the village is another church. A complete contrast to St. Giles, the Moravian Church is in mellow brick. 18th century evangalist John Cennick preached here. Born in, Reading, John Cennick was a follower of John Wesley. After spending some time as a teacher at Kingswood, Cennick found himself somewhat at odds with some of Wesley's teachings and left to join first George Whitefield then the Moravians. He preached here at Tytherton and wrote among others, the Hymns, Thou great Redeemer, dying Lamb, Ere I Sleep and Children of the Heavenly King. John Cennick died in 1755 aged only 37.

The Moravian Church
Moravian Church 1997   and 2008.

Opposite the Moravian Church is the sundial erected on the 500th anniversary of the building of Maud Heath's Causeway and on the other corner this group of cottages.
Sundial
Cottages


Flood
Flood
Flood pictures from December 2000


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