Description

SP 10 NE HATHEROP HATHEROP VILLAGE (south side)

2/77 Church of St. Nicholas

26.11.58 II*

Anglican parish church. Rebuilt 1854-55 by Henry Clutton, assisted by William Burges, for Lord de Mauley. Coursed and dressed rubble stone with quoins, tile or slate roofs. Nave with north and south aisles, crossing tower and chancel, small north porch and vestry, and south mortuary chapel. Perpendicular style with French Gothic influences. Tower has long 2-light belfry openings on each face, carved head corbel table and steep saddleback roof with coped verges with end saddlestones and top roll moulding. Weathervane on ridge. Clock to north below belfry, to west above corbel table. Nave of 5 bays with clerestorey to both sides with 2-light Perpendicular windows with arched hoodmoulds, parapet wall pierced with cusped quatrefoils set within square frames and with aedicule and statue in centre on west end. North porch has pierced small quatrefoil parapet and niche over large square doorway with colonnettes recessed in jambs and quatrefoil with mouchettes in spandrels, flanking stepped buttresses. South chapel has similar pierced small quatrefoil parapet on south side, 3 quatrefoil windows and deep French Gothic doorway with high relief carved moulding stops. To either end are stepped buttresses with steeply crossed gable on lowest step and animal gargoyles over. Interior: 3 bay arcade with faceted or cylindrical piers and 5 bay Perpendicular rafter roof supported on carved stone corbel heads. South chapel has 3-bay quadripartite vault, very richly carved frieze and capitals, and contains marble effigy of Barbara de Mauley (died 1844), by Raffaelle Monti of 1848 with flanking angel figures. Very fine stained glass throughout by O'Connor, and Lavers, Barraud and Westlake. Matching pulpit and font with fine diaper work and raised leaf carving. (David Verey, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: SP1538405095

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