Church Of St Cyr

ST 79 NW 3/96 30.6.61

STINCHCOMBE ECHO LANE(south side) Church of St Cyr

GII* Anglican parish church.Part C15 but largely as rebuilt in Decorated style in 1855;J L Pearson architect for the rebuilding.Cotswold limestone,stone slate roofs to coped gables with terminal crosses.Nave,chancel,south aisle,two-storey north porch,three-stage west tower with octagonal spire as rebuilt in 1882 after lightning strike.Tower with diagonal buttresses and crocketted pinnacles and pierced parapet,two-lightbell-stage openings of 1632 over statue niche,three-light perpendicular window,and west door under drip;stair turret south side.Porch with blank parapet with rosettes in quatrefoils,two-light C15 window;main doors pair oak plank in hollow plus wave mould arch under string.Rebuilt fabric in C14 style with two-light windows to nave and aisle,three-light to chancel,but five-light east chancel,rose with quatrefoil cusping over two cusped lancets east end of aisle,and three-light west end of aisle.Interior:four bay nave,quatrefoil piers and double-chamfered arcade,arch braced steep pitched roof,five steps down to tower;lierne vault with bosses and central quatrefoil springing from foliate capitals,in porch.Triple pedimented reredos,the Last Supper,with two supporters each side,wooden altar rail,stone screen east end of aisle,to organ chamber and vestry;quarry tile floors,good encaustic pattern by Minton,based on mediaeval tiles.Chancel windows by Wailes,nave and aisle by Clayton and Bell,a consistent series.Baroque wall memorial,1715,n side chancel,and white marble memorial to JOHN PINFOLD,1705,north side nave.

Listing NGR: ST7296598865