Parish Church Of Saint Peter And Saint Paul

The Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, located in Upton-upon-Severn, was built between 1878 and 1879 by Sir A W Blomfield for G E Martin of Ham Court. This impressive church features a striking spire and is constructed from yellow rock-faced Stanway stone with Bath stone dressings. The layout includes a nave, aisles, chancel, north chapel, and southeast vestry/organ loft, along with a northwest three-stage tower topped by a broach spire dating from 1831. The church is designed in the Decorated style, with a five-bay nave supported by octagonal piers and paired clerestory lights.

The nave roof features tie beams and collars, with crown posts and arched bracing to the purlins from queen struts. The chancel roof is ceiled and partly painted by Heaton, Butler and Bayne in 1884. Notable interior features include an elaborately carved sedilion and piscina in the south chancel wall, a carved stone and alabaster reredos from around 1880, iron and bronze Arts and Crafts style altar rails from 1907 by Nelson Dawson, a timber chancel screen that has been relocated to the west end of the nave, and a stone font dating to around 1880.

The church also contains significant stained glass, including a fine west window created around 1906 by Christopher Whall, a good east window from around 1884 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, and poorer nave glass installed between 1899 and 1902. From the previous church, there is an 18th-century font in the north chapel, a marble wall plaque commemorating Mary Bramley who died in 1737 in the north aisle, and other plain wall plaques. Additionally, a mutilated 14th-century effigy of a knight, which was broken and lost in 1757 and rediscovered in 1834, is said to belong to the Bateler family.