St Mary’s Priory Church, Deerhurst

“The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.”
Rudolf Steiner
Much of St Mary’s Priory Church at Deerhurst is Anglo-Saxon, dating from about the C8th when it was part of the kingdom of Mercia. Until the dissolution under Henry VIII in the C16th it was the church of a Benedictine priory. A stone’s throw from the banks of the Severn, the solid flood gate adjacent the church entrance gate is a reminder of the threat of flooding, and apparently provided a route for Viking marauders to sack and burn Deerhurst at the end of the C9th. The current building has been altered, extended and adapted over the centuries, but is still very much at the heart of the community.