Church Of St Andrew

SP 14 SW ASTON SUBEDGE ASTON SUBEDGE VILLAGE

4/1 Church of St. Andrew 25.8.60

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Anglican Parish Church. 1797. By Thomas Johnson of Warwick for Lord Harroby. Ashlar limestone with purple slate roof. Flat limestone copying at gable ends and heavily moulded stone eaves cornice. Nave and chancel with 3-sided apse. Gothic style with neo-Greek west bellcote. 3-windowed nave. 2 windows light apse. All windows probably C19, pointed with 'Y' tracery. 3 steps up to door in pointed archway in west gable end. Scratch sundial on south wall. Eroded early C19 memorial to members of the Green family of Saintbury on north wall. Decorative ironwork weather vane on bellcote. Interior: Simple nave with barrel-vaulted plastered ceiling and C18 wooden gallery with fielded panelled front supported by wood Tuscan order columns supported on pew backs. Single step up to chancel through pointed arch. Original C18 font inside door. Gallery retains original pews. Other pews C19 except in south east corner of nave where some original along-the-wall seating remains. C18 wood pulpit with tester adjacent. Late C17 tombstones in floor of nave. 3 wall tablets to members of the Harrowby family in chancel. Fittings for gas lighting at east end of nave and on west wall of gallery. (David Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds 1979)

Listing NGR: SP1383641624