Church of the Good Shepherd is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. Church.

Church of the Good Shepherd

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Type
Church
Address
Church of the Good Shepherd, Colwall
OS grid reference
SO 766 433
Coordinates
52.08825, -2.34214
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

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.

Local climate

Church of the Good Shepherd receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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