Church Of St Cyr

The Church of St Cyr is an Anglican parish church located in Stinchcombe. It dates back to the 15th century but was largely rebuilt in the Decorated style in 1855 by architect J L Pearson. The church is constructed from Cotswold limestone and features stone slate roofs with coped gables and terminal crosses.

The structure includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, a two-storey north porch, and a three-stage west tower topped with an octagonal spire, which was rebuilt in 1882 after being struck by lightning. The tower has diagonal buttresses, crocketted pinnacles, and a pierced parapet, with two-light bell-stage openings from 1632 above a statue niche, a three-light perpendicular window, and a west door beneath a drip. A stair turret is located on the south side of the tower.

The porch features a blank parapet adorned with rosettes in quatrefoils and a two-light 15th-century window. The main doors are a pair of oak planks set in a hollow with a wave mould arch under a string course. The rebuilt fabric displays a 14th-century style with two-light windows in the nave and aisle, three-light windows in the chancel, and a five-light east window in the chancel. The east end of the aisle has a rose window with quatrefoil cusping over two cusped lancets, and the west end of the aisle features a three-light window.

Inside, the church has a four-bay nave with quatrefoil piers and a double-chamfered arcade, along with an arch-braced steep pitched roof. There are five steps leading down to the tower, and the porch contains a lierne vault with bosses and a central quatrefoil springing from foliate capitals. The church features a triple pedimented reredos depicting the Last Supper, flanked by two supporters, a wooden altar rail, and a stone screen at the east end of the aisle leading to the organ chamber and vestry. The floors are laid with quarry tiles and feature a good encaustic pattern by Minton, based on medieval tiles. The chancel windows were made by Wailes, while the nave and aisle windows were created by Clayton and Bell, forming a consistent series. Notable memorials include a Baroque wall memorial from 1715 on the north side of the chancel and a white marble memorial to John Pinfold from 1705 on the north side of the nave.