St Giles Churchyard in Uley, Gloucestershire

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Coordinates: 51.68531, -2.30382
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The old church of St. Giles consisted of a nave with north aisle, a porch on the south side of the church with a parvise over, and a chancel with a chapel on the north. The tower, it will be seen, was placed against the north aisle near the east end, and this unusual arrangement has been perpetuated in the modern church.

The most interesting feature of the church was the north chapel - Bassett's chapel, the burying place of that ancient family. Here, according to Sir Robert Atkyns, existed in his time, i.e., about 1709, the monument of Robert Bassett, Esq. who died in 1572. The inscription does not appear to have been preserved, nor does there appear to be any record of other monuments to the Bassett family, and it is certainly remarkable that the church does not possess a single memorial of this once important Gloucestershire family. Even their burial-place was wholely swept away at the rebuilding of the church. It is worthy of remark that Bassett's chapel possessed a somewhat rare dedication, for we learn from the will of Robert Bassett, Esq., who died in 1492, that he directed that he should be buried in the Chapel of St. Godbold the Abbott.

The present church at Uley was built in the year 1858, on the site of the older and less pretentious building, which was then entirely swept away, and no relics of it left, save a few monuments now placed away in the tower out of sight.