Christ Church on Cricklade Street was opened in 1852 and like many of the buildings in Old Town is built from a mixture of local Swindon Stone and Bath Stone.

At the time Swindon Stone was created Swindon Old Town wasn't anywhere near where it is today. In fact it sat just 30-35 degrees north of the equator roughly at the same latitude as Gibraltar.

But as the continental plates started shifting northwards, through geological time, so did Swindon.

Swindon's climate, throughout the Jurassic period, was also a tad different. It was in fact a true green house climate hot, humid and with an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide.

There were no ice caps on the poles and there was vegetation from pole to pole. The seas were tropical and warm circulating around an earth which was hotter than it is today.

...cross over Cricklade Street and enter the churchyard of Christ Church