Description

SO 8803-8903 CHALFORD BUSSAGE HILL (west side)

10/10 Church of St Michael and All Angels 28.6.60

II

Parish church. 1844 by J.P. Harrison of Oxford; 1854 south aisle by G.F. Bodley. Coursed picked rubble limestone, rock-faced to south aisle; stone slate roof. Nave with south aisle and porch; west tower and chancel with north vestry. Four-bay south aisle with lean-to roof and gabled buttresses with tracery carving on front face; 2-light square-headed aisle windows with trefoil tracery. Gabled porch flush with aisle wall has moulded pointed arched doorway with carved quatrefoil panel above. This powerful aisle contrasts with the weaker main body of the church. Three 2- light pointed north nave windows with decorated tracery and pointed arched north doorway. Rather plain tower with tall 2-light west window and large diagonal offset buttresses. Projecting stair turret on south side with coped top. Two-light Decorated belfry openings; plain string courses and simple tower parapet with conical roof. Slightly more elaborate tracery to chancel windows, east window being 3-light. Interior: tall nave with fine 3-bay south arcade, octagonal piers having delicate floral carving above moulded capitals. Finely carved leaf terminals to hood mould and to corbel shafts. Tall pointed tower and chancel arch, latter with 5-bay timber rood screen. Six-bay nave roof with arched braced collar trusses on carved wooden angle corbels; cusped windbracing. Stepped chancel floor with encaustic tiles; wagon chancel roof. Three-bay reredos by Bodley with attached shafts. Timber sedile with hood set in south chancel window. Cl9 choir stalls and altar rail. Square- headed north aumbry with decorative iron grille. Octagonal stone pulpit front and font. Stained glass: east window of 1846 by O'Connor; one north nave window by Walter Tower. Church built for Thomas Keble following principles of the Oxford Movement, Harrison being described as a 'person of no great note in his profession, but an Oxford man, a gentleman, and a scholar'. South aisle, added for inmates of the nearby Bussage House of Mercy, is Bodley's first executed architectural work and is more successful than Harrison's church. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 4-40; and D. Verey, Cotswold Churches, 1976 and Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979). -

Listing NGR: SO8824903503

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