Church Of St Godwald

SO 96 NE FINSTALL ROAD, Aston Fields

666/6/10015 CHURCH OF ST GODWALD

II

Anglican church. 1883-4; by John Cotton. Red sandstone ashlar with Bath stone dressings. Clay plain tile roofs with coped gable ends. PLAN: Nave, chancel, south transept with vestry in east angle, and south porch with bellcote. Victorian Gothic style, in a style of circa 1300. EXTERIOR: The nave has 2-light windows with Geometric tracery on the south side and plate tracery on the north side. The south transept has large 2-light Geometric traceried window with flanking lancets, and similar window on west end of nave. Chancel east window is of three lights with Geometric tracery. The south porch has a timber bellcote over it. INTERIOR: Yellow brick walls, partly painted over. 3-bay nave roof with arch and scissor braces, on carved stone corbels. Moulded stone chancel arch and 2-bay arcade to south transept. Common-rafter-and-collar chancel roof. Seating including choir stalls and altar rail intact. Gothic carved stone reredos of 1924 by Celestino Pancheri; ornate marble Gothic font of 1897; D-Day memorial by Robert Pancheri. Stained glass east window, and in south transept a window by A.E. Lemmon. SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.153.

Listing NGR: SO9694569580