We made the chapel a 'Wonder Point.  We wanted to hear the stories in the stones so we looked very carefully at the ruined old building and at its location. 

The Building

First we looked at the shape of the doorways and the window openings, the rounded arches seemed to be telling us that they had been constructed in Norman times.  Furthermore the stones of the arches were plain, telling us that they had been erected before the Norman craftsmen had started to decorate their stoneware!

We looked inside the buildings, if this was once a church it was very strange - the building looked as though it had once been lived in.  It looked as though there had once been an upstairs and the colour of the stonework seemed to be telling us that there had been a fire!

The Location.

This is Chapel Farm the ruined chapel can just be seen to the right of the farmhouse and looks as though the farm and the chapel are 'of a piece'.  Maybe back in Norman times this farm and this chapel had been part of a complex of manorial buildings, perhaps the Lord of the Manor had lived in a manor house on the site of this farm house. The Wychavon Way runs close to this farm and on the pathway there is an information board with a reconstruction drawing showing what Netherton may once have looked like.

This illustration by Steve Rigby is featured on the Information Board, it shows a small farming community, not so very different to the community today eight to nine hundred years later, but what has happened here and what is the story of this church building?