Church of Unknown Dedication is a Grade II* listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of Unknown Dedication
- WRENN ID
- fading-steeple-acorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of Unknown Dedication, Tidmington
- OS grid reference
- SP 261 385
- Coordinates
- 52.04481, -1.62016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of unknown dedication dates primarily from around 1200, with a tower and chancel rebuilt in the early 16th century and a restoration in 1874. It is constructed of squared, coursed limestone with ashlar, and has slate and stone slate roofs. The church comprises a chancel, a nave with a south porch, and a west tower.
The chancel, of two bays, has a coped gable with kneelers and a moulded cornice. It features an early 16th-century east window of three scalloped lights with mouchettes above, a moulded surround, hood mould, and label stops. Two further early 16th-century square-headed windows, one of two cusped lights and the other of two lights with scalloped heads, are located to the south, along with a similar window to the north, both with hood moulds and label stops. The nave has coped gables and offset buttresses. A 19th-century stone gabled porch with a coped gable and buttress stands on the south side, featuring a pointed arch doorway with a moulded surround, Early-English style shafts and stiff-leaf capitals, and carved head label stops. A circa 1200 doorway, with cushion capitals supporting a tympanum with a central carved motif and moulded surround, is also present. To the north side, and to the east of the porch, are 19th-century two-light windows in the Early-English style. A round-headed chamfered light is located on the west side of the nave. A restored north round-headed doorway with a moulded surround and plank door is also present.
The early 13th-century west tower is of three stages with flat buttresses, featuring a stone lean-to vestry to the north and a plain chamfered light to the west. Several chamfered lights are situated on the second and third stages, with a 2-light window on the third stage, featuring a central shaft with moulded base and capital, an unpierced tympanum, and a hood mould. A single chamfered light is set to the east. A corbel table of carved human and beast heads is visible and is divided by moulded stage bands, with a pyramidal roof above.
Inside, the east window is splayed, and a 12th-century piscina is located in the south wall. The chancel floor is laid with coloured tiles. A chamfered chancel archway, with a double chamfer, leads into the nave. The tower arch is triple-chamfered, with the innermost order supported on 13th-century corbels carved with the heads of a man and a woman. A pointed doorway leads into the vestry to the north. A 13th-century round font featuring a carved seated figure of a saint is also present. Restored 15th-century benches with panel tracery and a poppyhead finial are in the north-west of the nave. Eleven 19th-century and one 20th-century wall tablets are found within the church, along with 19th-century glass in the east and south-east windows of the nave.
Local climate
Church of Unknown Dedication receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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