Church of St Cyr is a Grade II* listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1960. Church.
Church of St Cyr
- WRENN ID
- vast-cinder-woodpecker
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Cyr, Church Lane, Stonehouse
- OS grid reference
- SO 799 050
- Coordinates
- 51.74346, -2.29181
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Cyr is a parish church with a 14th-century tower; the remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1854 by Henry Crisp of Bristol, with further chancel aisles and a vestry added in 1884. The building is constructed of coursed and squared limestone and has a stone slate roof. It comprises a nave and chancel with aisles, a west tower, a north porch, and a south vestry.
The north doorway, of round arched 12th-century style, is stated to be a copy of the original and is approached via a porch with a pointed arch and diagonal offset buttresses. The aisles have a five-window fenestration with Perpendicular tracery in offset, buttressed walls. The north doorway replaces one window on the north side, and the projecting gabled vestry replaces another window on the south side at the east end. The three-stage west tower has diagonal buttresses and appears squat due to the high roof of the rebuilt church. It features a moulded, pointed arched west doorway with a Perpendicular traceried window above. The belfry, possibly dating to the later 15th century, has two-light openings with timber louvres below quatrefoil tracery. A crenellated parapet tops the tower, with a square stair turret on the north side. A moulded string course connects the animal gargoyles on the tower.
The short chancel has an east window with curvilinear tracery. The interior is spacious, with five-bay aisle arcades. The tower arch is obscured by a large west organ loft supported by iron columns, beneath which is a traceried timber tower screen. A high, pointed chancel arch is flanked by lower, four-centred aisle arches. The nave roof has high cambered tie beams with short king posts and quatrefoil spandrel filling. Recessed flanking panels match the east window. Various 19th-century church furnishings remain original. The earliest memorial in the tower is a panel flanked by scrolls to Mary, wife of Thomas Smyth, who died in 1675 and an oval memorial with a wreathed border and escutcheons to Anselm Fowler of Moore Hall, who died in 1704. Various 19th-century memorials are in the south aisle. Stained glass in the east window is by Wailes of Newcastle.
Local climate
Church of St Cyr 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 greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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