St Andrew's Parish Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Andrew's Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-rubblework-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Andrew's Parish Church, Naunton
- OS grid reference
- SP 112 234
- Coordinates
- 51.90921, -1.8383
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Andrew's Parish Church is a Grade II* listed building dating from the 13th century, with a reconstruction around 1500 and a tower added in the 15th century. The church underwent restoration in 1878 and was re-floored and repaired in 1899. It is constructed from Cotswold stone, featuring an ashlar tower and a Cotswold stone roof. The layout includes a west tower, a five-bay nave with a shorter north aisle, and a short south porch from 1878, as well as a two-bay chancel with a 19th-century vestry to the northeast.
The tower is three stages high, with diagonal buttresses on the first two stages and corner piers on the upper stage. It has a crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles, gargoyles, and curved head stops on the Perpendicular belfry window labels. There are two painted sundials on the southwest corner, one dated 1748 and the other inscribed 'Lux Umbra Dei'. The south side features square-headed windows with three Tudor arch lights, one located to the west of a Tudor-arch priest's door, which is blocked with reused earlier material. The east window was restored in 1878 in the Perpendicular style. The north aisle has two wide bays, with a Tudor arch west window that has crude headstops and simple three-light glazing, and an east window showcasing provincial flat-headed Perpendicular tracery with cusping and sub-lights, along with diagonal stops on the label.
Access to the church is through a tall Tudor arch south doorway. Inside, the church is stripped, with the main feature being the wide span of the two-bay north arcade supported by a hollow-chamfered pier. There is no chancel arch, but there is an arch-braced seven-bay roof, possibly from the 17th century, while the north aisle roof is from the 19th century. A tall moulded tower arch leads to a 19th-century octagonal font in the Perpendicular style beneath it. The pulpit, dating from the 15th or early 16th century, is octagonal with tracery resembling the east window on the north side of the aisle. A cross on the west wall of the nave is believed to be Anglo-Saxon. The floor tiling, laid in 1899, is particularly rich in the sanctuary. There is a wall monument on the north side of the chancel dedicated to Ambrose Oldys, who died in 1720, referencing his father who was killed by the 'rebels' (Parliamentarians). This monument features a grey marble aedicule with a broken segmental pediment and a central tablet flanked by cherubs. Additionally, there are three brass tomb plaques from the 16th century.
Local climate
St Andrew's Parish Church receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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