Church Of St Mary And St Margaret

COMBROOK

SP35SW VILLAGE STREET, Combrook 1901-1/6/50 (South East side) 02/08/72 Church of St Mary and St Margaret

GV II

Church. 1866. By John Gibson, incorporating chancel of 1831 with alterations. MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings; steeply pitched old and renewed tile roof. PLAN: 2-bay chancel and 5-bay nave with lean-to aisles and bellcote. c1300 style. Coped gables. EXTERIOR: chancel has a 3-light traceried east window; north and south sides have straight-headed 2-light windows. Aisles have diagonal buttresses and 2-light windows with head stops to hood moulds in gabled half-dormers. West entrance has elaborate open-work cusped gable on shafts with foliated capitals and large angel corbels; rose window above. Gable has bellcote with spire and weather-vane; angels to angles. INTERIOR: flower-pot shaped font is possibly medieval. STAINED GLASS: east window by Willement c1866; good glass to west window. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 238-9; Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 107).

Listing NGR: SP3076251708