Religion

A history of the village parish church from its earliest known times. Photo dates from the restoration of 1876.

This article records details from all of the memorials in the churchyard at St Mary's Parish Church, Norton.

In the eighteenth century Ralph Bigland visited all the churchyards in the county of Gloucestershire and made a record of the memorials that were there. The following is his entry for St Mary’s, Norton.

This article records details from all of the memorials that can be found inside St Mary's Parish Church, Norton.

This article records a short history of the bells of St Mary's Parish Church, Norton.

On the wall inside St Mary’s is a notice board listing all of the incumbents of the church. Using this as a starting point, this article will seek to record all of the clergymen who have taken services at Norton over the years as well as those who were the resident curate. [Canon Evans-Prosser was vicar of Norton 1934-1979 and The Leigh 1947-1979 and it seemed appropriate to use his image as the lead photo for this article].

A discussion concerning the presence of early chapels at Norton. [The photo has NO connection to these chapels].

This is a brief history of non-conformist religion at Norton specifically the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel that for many years stood near The Green.

There seem to have been a number of villagers from The Leigh who adopted Mormonism but I have not identified much in relation to Norton.