History

A medieval church, of which the nave is possibly C13, but the chancel is later. The church was restored in 1903 and repaired in 1958 by G Pace, architect, who rendered the exterior.

Exterior

A simple Gothic style church comprising nave with a wider chancel, of whitened roughcast walls and slate roof with overhanging eaves. The nave has a medieval pointed S doorway with continuous chamfer, and a boarded door. To its R is a 2-light Decorated window. The chancel S wall has 2 pointed lights and a boarded door R of centre. Three stepped cusped lights form the E window. On the N side are 3 pointed lights, one to the chancel and 2 to the nave. The W wall has a plain 2-light square-headed window. The gabled W bellcote stands in line with the nave. It has a roughcast W side, but the remainder is weatherboarded.

Interior

The 4-bay nave roof has 3 arched-brace trusses with tie beams, of which the E is plastered above the collar and the tie beam acted as the rood beam, and a queen-post truss at the W end supporting the bellcote. The roof has 2 tiers of diagonal braces. The chancel has a similar 3-bay arched-brace roof, with 2 tiers of uncusped windbraces and cambered tie beams. In the S wall is a simple corbelled piscina.

A rood screen is reconstructed and does not quite span the width of the nave. It has a central doorway flanked by slender pinnacled shafts, but the intricate tracery above the doorway is mostly missing. To the L and R are 3 bays retaining delicate cusped tracery heads, and boarded dado. The coving is missing, but a moulded beam was probably the original bressumer.

The plain round tub font, C12 or C13, stands on a later plinth. Pews, choir stalls, polygonal pulpit and communion rail on iron uprights are simple early C20 work. In the S wall is a tablet commemorating Thomas Sheen (d 1822) on a corbelled apron.

Reasons for Listing

Listed grade II* for its special architectural interest as a well-preserved small medieval parish church with an especially fine interior.

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q17738005

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)