Church Of St Mark

DURSLEY WOODMANCOTE ST 7597 (east side) 7/78 Church of St. Mark 13.2.81 II

Chapel of ease. 1844 by George Alexander; enlarged 1859 by Thigall and Male. Coursed and squared limestone; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Early English style with matching enlargement. Nave with north aisle and porch; north and south transepts (latter an organ chamber); short chancel with vestry to south; spirelet in angle of chancel and north transept. Moulded pointed porch-arch with similar to north aisle doorway; buttressed north aisle wall with single lancet windows and Lombard frieze. Pointed-arched doorway to west end of nave with triplet lancet window over; paired lancets in gabled end of north aisle to left. Similar lancets in south nave wall, also with Lombard frieze. Gable ends of transepts have paired lancets. Triplet east window in angle-buttressed wall. Octagonal broach spirelet over belfry with open trefoil-headed sides on narrow square tower. Interior is limewashed with stone dressings. Three-bay north arcade probably dating from enlargement has pointed arches and circular piers with moulded capitals and bases. Pointed arches to crossing with chamfered archivolt taken off corbels. Trefoil- headed squint to left of nave arch. Bolted round-arched roof trusses. Chancel has 7-bay arcaded reredos removed from Church of St James (q.v.). Carved stone altar. C18 hexagonal panelled oak pulpit on narrowing base; C19 pews taken from Church of St John, Cheltenham, by J.B. Papworth. Octagonal stone font with marble columns to base and stiff-leaf carving. Early C20 stained glass to east window including middle light by Geoffrey Webb. A good and unaltered example of a C19 chapel of ease. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST7591197731