Church of St Faith is a Grade II* listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1968. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Faith
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1968
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Faith is a Grade II* listed building located in Berrow, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with some remains from the 12th century. It is constructed of rubble, mainly sandstone, and features a roof made of tile and stone slate. The church includes a west tower, nave, south aisle, north porch, and a lower chancel.
The west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and topped with an embattled parapet. It has bell openings featuring two trefoiled lights beneath pointed heads. The west window, likely re-set, consists of three lights with reticulated tracery. The south aisle has three bays, each with windows of three Tudor-arched lights under flat heads. On the north wall of the nave, there is a lancet window towards the east and a low window with a flat head to its left. The doorway features a round arch with a blank tympanum, angle shafts, and restored scalloped capitals. The open timber porch, probably from the 15th century, has a cambered tie-beam with arch-braces decorated with tracery and carved bargeboards. A joint in the north wall of the chancel indicates that it has been rebuilt. The north and south chancel windows from the 14th century have two trefoiled ogee lights under pointed heads with quatrefoils. To the right of the north window is a priest's doorway with a pointed head. The east window features three trefoiled lights under a pointed head with tracery.
Inside, the church has a tall pointed tower arch that is chamfered in two orders. The four-bay arcade has pointed arches, also chamfered in two orders, that spring from octagonal piers with ill-fitting re-cut capitals. To the west, there is an additional fifth bay with a pointed arch featuring a plain soffit. The nave and chancel boast 19th-century collar-rafter roofs with soulaces to the collars, while the chancel roof is lower and lacks a chancel arch.
The font is Norman in style, shaped like a cauldron and adorned with two rows of cable ornament. The wooden pulpit dates from the 17th century, and the east window contains mid-19th-century glass.
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