Description

SO 51 NW GANAREW CP GANAREW

5/5 Church of St Swithin

GV II

Parish church. c1850 by J Pritchard of Llandaff. Coursed sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings, decorative tiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles.
Nave, south porch and chancel with north vestry. Decorated style.
Nave: 2 square-headed windows with hoodmoulds have cusped ogee-headed lights
and spandrels, 2-light window to west and 3-light to east flanking gabled
porch. Square-set bellcote partly supported by a central buttress at west
end has similar cusped ogee-headed openings in square surrounds and spirelet
with decorative lucarnes, 3-cusped ogee-headed lancets to chancel. Interior:
decorative arch-braced roof with moulded members and cusped wind-braces,
mock sepulcural recess in north wall of chancel with cusping and crocket
ornament.

Listing NGR: SO5294916326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Swithin, Ganarew at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5117721

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