The church of St. John the Baptist is located in the rather lovely village of Brokenborough in Wiltshire.

Although we have visited Brokenborough numerous times, the church had been locked but on one visit we were fortunate enough to bump into a key holder who was just leaving.  He stayed for a few more moments whilst we rushed around to take a few photographs of the inside.  We were particularly keen to go inside because we had heard of a memorial plaque which commemorates one of Mandy's relatives, Alice Gladwin (her great great grandmother's sister).  We are grateful to the keyholder for allowing us in to take our photographs.

The church is a Grade II* listed building - more information about the listing can be found at the  Historic England  website.  There is also more information about the church at the:  Wiltshire Council History

Mandy's Gladwin family lived in a house near the church for many years - between them being blacksmiths (3 generations), teacher, sunday school teacher, coal merchants, bakers and postmistress, so this feels like a family church.  Many of the Gladwin family are buried here including Mandy's great great grandmother Sarah Hannah Lea (nee Gladwin) although we do not know the exact location of her grave.