Church Of Holy Cross

SX 54 NE NEWTON AND NOSS COURT ROAD, NEWTON 9/127 FERRERS 29/3/60 Church of Holy Cross

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Parish church. C15 west tower, the remainder has some C13/14 parts although extensively rebuilt in 1885-6 to designs by Fellowes Prynne. Stone rubble with freestone dressings. Slate roofs. Comprising nave, north and south aisles, chancel, with vestry, south porch and west tower. Mostly late C19 Perpendicular panel tracery windows. C19 early English style three-light east window. South window of chancel C15/16 three cusped lights and straight head with hood mould. C13 north window of chancel, tripartite lancets with cusped heads and restored mullions. Large circa early C16 east window of south aisle with four-centred arch and four roll moulded four-centred arch lights. Tall C15 west tower, in three stages with weathered string courses and moulded plinth. Buttresses set back from the corners, have set offs. Embattled parapet and stumps of pinnacles. Three-light Perpendicular bell-opening. C19 three-light Perpendicular style west window and west doorway. Interior: Wide C15 three-bay north and south arcades with moulded four-centred arches on monolithic granite piers with alternating shafts and hollows and with moulded caps and bases. C13/14 Piscina with foiled tracery and C13/14 triple Sedilia, on south wall of chancel. Squints from aisles to chancel and nave to north aisle. Two centred arch chamfered doorway with pyramid stops in north wall of chancel to vestry. Nave and chancel in one with C19 boarded wagon roof. Late C19 furnishings including:- screens, choir stalls, pulpit, brass lectern and alabaster reredos. C20 seating. Monuments: Tablet on south wall of chancel 1679 to Grace Clifford, daughter of Barnaby Potter, Bishop of Carlisle, an inscription within bolection architrave with cornice and pulvinated frieze.

Listing NGR: SX5502148157