Church Dedication Unknown is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. A Medieval Church.
Church Dedication Unknown
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-hammer-quill
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Parish church of unknown dedication, built in the 15th century and restored in 1866 by Pope and Bindon. The building is constructed of limestone rubble with freestone dressings. The tower features coursed limestone and sandstone rubble with freestone open chequers. The nave and chancel have mineralised felt roofs with coped verges and cross finials (the nave finial is broken), the vestry has a slate roof, and the porch has a double Roman tiled roof.
The church is designed in Perpendicular style and comprises a west tower, nave, chancel, south porch and north vestry entered from the nave. The three-stage tower has a west door with pointed arch, moulded surround and hood mould. Above this is a four-light window with mask stops to the hood mould and sandstone relieving arch. All four sides of the second stage have two-light blind windows with hood mould and trefoil heads. A clock is positioned to the south. The third stage contains two-light windows with bell louvres, hood mould and sandstone relieving arch. The tower has diagonal weathered buttresses, weathered string courses, and gargoyles at the base of the parapet (three to each side). The parapet is embattled, probably from the Tudor period or later, with ball finials to the merlons and pinnacles at the corners. A stair turret projects from the south-east, crowned with an ogee cap and cockerel weathervane, and features quatrefoil openings at the first and second stages. A slit window in a plain surround is located at ground floor level, with a sandstone relieving arch on the east side of the tower.
The four-bay nave has on its south side a two-light window to the left and a three-light window to the right, both with stopped hood mould. The second bay from the right contains a triple lancet with trefoil heads in a plain surround. The south porch is positioned in the second bay from the left and has a pointed arched door in a surround of plain orders, with a string course to the gable front continuing around the head of the door. It has weathered diagonal buttresses. The north side of the nave has a three-light window with cusped tracery and hood mould to the right and left, a single light with ogee head in the second bay from the left, and a door with segmental head and plain chamfered surround in the second bay from the right. A straight joint marks the transition to the east bay.
The three-bay chancel has on its south side a single light ogee-headed cusped window in a plain surround, a priest's door in a pointed arch to the centre, and a three-light east window with stopped hood mould. It has weathered diagonal buttresses. The north side contains a three-light window and a single-storey vestry with weathered cornice and parapet with trefoil heads in relief and coping, with a gable front facing north.
The interior of the porch contains an arched-brace roof of seven bays, with a 19th-century door in a triangular-headed opening. The tower interior has a west door with four-centred arched chamfered opening. Three sides of the stair turret project into the nave, with a pointed arched door in a chamfered surround. A high pointed arch spans between the tower and nave, featuring a moulded surround, jamb shafts with moulded bell capitals, and a 20th-century screen that closes the tower from the nave.
The nave has a 15th-century roof of seven bays, with flat tie-beams on short arched-braces with corbel heads, short crown posts, moulded purlins and ridge purlin. Carved spandrels appear between the arched-brace and tie-beam, and between the principal rafter and tie-beam. The wall-plate is brattished. All windows have deep splayed reveals.
The chancel has a segmental arch springing from late Perpendicular piers with carved imposts, one depicting an animal and one a mask. The roof is of two bays, constructed similarly to the nave but with angels as corbels and a carved ceiling between the rafters. The lower part of the east wall features carved painted stone in square panels with a non-repeating pattern of flowers and a quatrefoil frieze. The south door is blocked. A 19th-century carved north door with strap hinges occupies a pointed arch. A small piscina with shell bowl is set into the south wall.
Fittings include a 15th-century octagonal font bowl in the nave with two small quatrefoils on each face, mounted on a circular shaft with a square buttress at each corner of the octagon. A 19th-century Perpendicular-style stone pulpit with carved symbols of the four evangelists on its faces stands in the nave. An Astry arms hatchment is displayed in the tower. The chancel contains a baroque black and white marble wall monument to Sir Samuel Astry (died 1704) and other family members, created by Edward Stanton. Three marble monuments with urns—one in the chancel and two in the nave—are by W. Paty, dating to the late 18th century.
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