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Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges

Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges
Church of St Giles, Stoke Poges

St Giles' Church is an active parish church in the village of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. A Grade I listed building, it stands in the grounds of Stoke Park, a late-Georgian mansion built by John Penn. It is famous as the apparent inspiration for Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; Gray is buried in the churchyard.

Also on this shelf

Breton Gospel Book (British Library, MS Egerton 609).

Black Book of Carmarthen.

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