Wool Church
Wool Churches , so wool churches is the common name for a number of large and magnificent parish churches in villages and small towns of England , built in the late 15th to early 16th century in the Tudor style . The name of these late Gothic churches comes from the fact that they were financed from income from the wool trade , which at the time led to great prosperity in parts of southern England .
Wool Churches are in several counties:
- Gloucestershire with the Cotswolds , there in Chipping Campden , Cirencester and Northleach ,
- Norfolk , there in Attleborough , Aylsham , Cawston and Diss (in Wymondham the citizens only built a new tower on the Norman church),
- Suffolk , there in Lavenham and Long Melford ,
- East Sussex , there in Horsham .