Wool church

Driving from the Cotswolds to Huntingdon, we paused at the parish church  of St John the Baptist in Burford. It's one of the Cotswold wool churches. Wool churches were paid for by local merchants and farmers who had grown rich on the large scale wool manufacturing that replaced many of the small farms of the medieval period. Wool churches were designed to demonstrate the wealth and power of their funders and to help them secure a place in heaven. So they were often larger than the community needed.
Other beautiful wool churches we have enjoyed in the Cotswolds are Cirencester and Tetbury.