St Mary’s Church, Upper Swainswick

A black and white photograph of a Norman church in a graveyard

Lockey’s journal recorded this Norman church as a stereoscopic pair of calotypes, but only one of the pair of negatives is known. This is a digital positive converted from Lockey’s calotype negative, photographed on a light box.

A photographic negative of a Norman church in a graveyard — The calotype negative, photographed on a light box.

A colour photograph of a Norman church in a graveyard — Some structural changes have been made since the 1850s, elongation of one of the buildings on the East side and an increase in height. Iron railings around tombs have been removed and a tree now stands where the original image was taken from. A digital photograph taken in 2023 from (almost) the same point as Lockey’s calotype.

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Lockey, Francis

Donation Sources: Bristol & West Amateur Photographic Assn.

Object id: D800573-05

Width: 28

Height: 21.8

St Mary’s Church, Upper Swainswick was built at the end 12th century, with modifications in the 14th and 19th century. Lockey records this as ‘Swk. Ch. Stereoscopic pair’ in his journal entry for 27 March 1854.