Fairford

Fairford, a village of Gloucestershire, 9 miles E. of Cirencester, and 26 WSW. of Oxford. Its fine Perpendicular church, built by John Tame in the 15th century, is famous for its splendid series of twenty-eight stained-glass windows, often erroneously attributed to Albert Dürer, but really of Flemish workmanship. Keble was a native. Pop. of parish, 1525. See the Rev. J. G. Joyce, The Fairford Windows (fol. 1872).