Description

NY 65 NE COANWOOD LAMBLEY

6/121 Church of St. Mary and
St. Patrick

GV II

Parish church, 1885 by William Searle Hicks. Squared stone with dressings,
roof of Hardrow tiles. Nave, chancel, south porch and organ chamber. Free C13
style. Plinth, string course at sill level. Nave of 3 bays, with single and
paired lancets; large stepped buttress in centre of west end carries octagonal
belfy with shouldered-arched openings set diagonally and short stone spire.
Simpler bell-cote on east gable of nave carrying an old bell reputed to come
from Lambley Priory. Gabled south porch has chamfered pointed arch beneath
panel with relief fleur-de-lys. 2-bay chancel has 2-light window, small priest's
door and 3-light window on the south and a triplet of lancets in the east end,
with 2 fleur-de-lys panels and a quatrefoil window over. Organ chamber on the
north has 2-light mullioned windows. Interior; triple-chamfered chancel arch
with dogtooth and nailhead ornament, chamfered arch on corbels to organ chamber.
Chancel with quadripartite rib vault, nave with quite elaborate roof structure
combining principal-rafter trusses with trussed rafter forms. Various contemporary
fittings.

Listing NGR: NY6725858606

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26294812

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)