Diameter: 16" Bell 1 of 2
Founded by Abraham I Rudhall 1709
Dove Bell ID: 57742 Tower ID: 22183 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Moreton Jeffries: No Dedication
Overview
Grid reference: SO 603 484
The church is long and low, with nave and chancel under one roof, upon the western end of which stands a small square bell cote with slated sides and slated pyramidal roof with primitive broaches at the angles. This has timber trefoil-headed openings with louvres in each face. Otherwise the immediately striking feature is the remarkably small number of windows.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Long narrow nave and chancel in one under a single roof ridge; small west bell-cote and later south porch.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church appears to be basically mediaeval and seems to have been extended westward some time after it was first built and, from the surrounds of the south windows, to have been restored in the eighteenth-century. There was also a heavy restoration in the nineteenth century but no precise dates are known.
Exterior Description
The church is long and low, with nave and chancel under one roof, upon the western end of which stands a small square bell cote with slated sides and slated pyramidal roof with primitive broaches at the angles. This has timber trefoil-headed openings with louvres in each face. Otherwise the immediately striking feature is the remarkably small number of windows. In the south wall are two windows which light the nave, both with Y tracery and moulded surrounds evidently renewed in the eighteenth century. The nave has no windows in the west wall and only one in the long north wall, again of two lights with Y tracery but this time probably late mediaeval in date and much renewed. The chancel has no windows in the side walls but an east window consisting of three lancets with trefoiled heads all of the same height with blind trefoils within roundels above to make the composition fit into an arch. The north wall shows signs of former openings which have since been blocked, including a doorway roughly opposite the south door and at least two windows. The present south porch is a very mean structure with thin side walls and a pitched roof. The western part of the nave has a simple splayed plinth which suggests that it has been lengthened about sixteen feet westward at some time. The south doorway has a chamfered two-centred arch and the door itself is probably seventeenth-century.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
The east window has colourful grisaille commemorating a death in 1858; the other three windows all have stencilled grisaille quarries.
Interior
Interior Description
The nave walls are plastered and the windows stand within plain reveals. The roof is of an open timber construction with a tie beam to each pair of rafters, but otherwise there are really no architectural features to note in the nave. The floor is paved with tiles in the alloy and with boards under the pews and a nineteenth-century font stands by the door. The pews incorporate much re-used seventeeth-century panelling, as does the little door at the west end which opens into a narrow space stretching the width of the church under the west bellcote.
The chancel is divided from the nave by a screen of nineteenth-century date, against the north end of which stands the Jacobean pulpit which is the treasure of the church. There is one step and the tiles beyond are coloured in brown, buff and black. Above the screen a tie-beam, possibly a rood beam, has been cut away so that only the ends remain embedded in the wall. Nevertheless beyond this point the structure of the roof alters, and the chancel has an open timber roof. It is of two bays with three trusses. The tie beanms have curved braces and there are shaped wall posts terminating in shields and raking struts between the tie-beams and purlins. The main timbers are moulded.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
c.1860
The altar is of oak.
Reredos
The reredos is also of oak, a low gradine with text and a shelf for the cross.
Pulpit
c. Early 17th Century
Although not large, so it is very stately and is square on plan, raised above a reading desk on the south side. The west and south sides are panalled in two stages the lower with two round arches divided by a muntin and the upper with a rich scroll design incorporating animal heads and half-circles at the south-west corner which seem to be part of the original design.
Font (object)
19th Century
The font is nineteenth-century, with a round stone bowl on a round polished marble stem.
Bells
Diameter: 15" Bell 2 of 2
Founded by Unidentified (blank)
Dove Bell ID: 57743 Tower ID: 22183 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: SO 603 484
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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| Name | Status | Number found in this site |
|---|---|---|
| Common yew | Veterantree | 1 |
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
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