Church Of The Good Shepherd

The Church of the Good Shepherd is a church built between 1909 and 1910 by Hill Parker & Son of Worcester. It features rough rubble construction with Bath stone quoins, dressings, a floor band, and eaves. The church has a timber-framed porch and vestry with roughcast panels, and slate roofs laid in diminishing courses. Engineering brick is used for the quoins and dressings of the basement storey. The design is in a free-flowing Gothic style influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement.

The church has a five-bay nave and a one-bay chancel, which is divided by buttresses, leading to a slightly narrower one-bay sanctuary. The porch, approached by a pierced terrace, projects from the center of the south side, while the vestry projects with an organ chamber in the north transept position. The nave is situated above a meeting hall that is built into the hillside. The church windows feature original flowing tracery and Arts and Crafts-style panelled lead cames, with a prominent three-light west window above a projecting baptistery. The meeting hall has plain cross mullion windows and an entrance in the lobby below the porch.

Inside, the church is notable for its complete set of contemporary fittings, which include high-quality carvings, especially in the chancel area. The chancel arch truss has tracery that relates to the window designs, and there is a stone sanctuary arch with dying mouldings. Wood panelling lines one side of the nave but not the other. A large reredos from around the 1920s features pewter bas relief, and the steps have marbled risers. The woodwork was crafted by R Haughton of Worcester, and the builders were Thomas Broad of Malvern. The foundation stone was laid by J W Wilson of Perrycroft on August 3, 1909, suggesting a connection to the architect C.F.A. Voysey, as indicated by the detailing.