Parish Church Of Saint Peter And Saint Paul

UPTON-UPON-SEVERN OLD STREET SO 8540 2/100 (east side) 25.3.68 Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul GV II* 1878-9 by Sir A W Blomfield for G E Martin of Ham Court. An imposing church with a landmark spire. Yellow rock-faced Stanway stone with Bath stone dressings. Nave, aisles, chancel, N chapel and SE vestry/organ loft. NW 3-stage tower with 1831 broach spire. Decorated style. Five bay nave with octagonal piers and paired clerestory lights. Five light east window, 4 light west window.

Tie beam and collar nave roof with crown posts and arched bracing to purlins from queen struts. Ceiled chancel roof, partly painted by Heaton, Butler and Bayne 1884. Elaborately carved sedilion and piscina in south chancel wall.

Significant fittings include carved stone and alabaster reredos c1880, iron and bronze Arts and Crafts type altar rails 1907 by Nelson Dawson, timber chancel screen moved to west end of nave and stone font c1880.

Fine west window c1906 by Christopher Whall, good east window, c1884, Heaton Butler and Bayne, poor nave glass 1899-1902.

From previous church, C18 font in N chapel, marble wall plaque to Mary Bramley d. 1737 in N aisle and other, plain, wall plaques. C14 mutilated effigy of a knight broken and lost in 1757, rediscovered 1834. Said to be one of the Bateler family.

Building News. 35. 1879. 558.

Listing NGR: SO8515140277