Wool church
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wool-church-305-16195274
title:
Wool church
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A wool church is an English church financed primarily by donations from rich merchants and farmers who had benefitted from the medieval wool trade, hoping to ensure a place in heaven due to their largesse. Wool churches are common in the Cotswolds and in the "wool towns" of upland East Anglia, where enormous profits from the wool business spurred construction of ever-grander edifices. A wool church was often built to replace a smaller or less imposing place of worship, in order to reflect the gr
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wool_church
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2023-01-23T19:25:56Z
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