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- Other wool churches can be seen in neighbouring Northleach and Chipping Campden.
- It was, in a sense, the anti-Wool church.
- The area still preserves numerous large, handsome Cotswold Stone " wool churches ".
- It is a notable wool church and regarded as the finest example of Late Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England.
- The building of wool churches largely ended with the English Reformation and the simultaneous decline of the wool trade between 1525 and 1600.
- A rich wool trading centre in the Middle Ages, Chipping Campden enjoyed the patronage of wealthy wool merchants ( see also wool church ).
- Wool churches are common in the Cotswolds and in East Anglia, where enormous profits from the wool business spurred construction of ever-grander edifices.
- In areas of Southern England using flint architecture, elaborate flushwork decoration in flint and ashlar was used, especially in the wool churches of East Anglia.
- This rebuilding is believed to have been funded by John Ashfield, a wool merchant, making St . Mary's an example of a " wool church ".
- It is a noted example of a Suffolk medieval wool church, founded and financed by wealthy wool merchants in the medieval period as impressive visual statements of their prosperity.
- The rebuilding also gave Spring an opportunity to display his wealth and generosity, thus solidifying his position in Suffolk; a common motivation behind the construction of many wool churches.
- A wool church was often built to replace a smaller or less imposing place of worship, in order to reflect the growing prosperity of the community in which it was situated.
- Among the lasting monuments to the success of the trade are the'wool churches'of East Anglia and the Cotswolds; the London Worshipful Company of Clothworkers; and the fact that since the fourteenth century, the presiding officer of the House of Lords has sat on the Woolsack, a chair stuffed with wool.