by Chris Hobson
(FHS Occasional Paper No 3)
Published by Fairford History Society. December 2006
Please click here Occ Paper 3 Valentine Strong
Valentine Strong was a well-known Cotswold stonemason who built Andrew Barker’s Fairford Park mansion house and was the father of Thomas and Edward Strong, Sir Christopher Wren’s master masons in the rebuilding of St Paul’s Cathedral following the Great Fire of London. Valentine Strong died in Fairford in 1662 and is buried under an impressive bale tomb in St Mary’s churchyard.