Description

ST 7458
12/7

WELLOW C.P.
HIGH STREET (North side)
Parish Church of St Julian

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GV
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Parish Church of St. Julian. Founded prior to C12; it is suggested but without evidence that the present church was built c.1372 by Sir Thomas Hungerford; late C14/C15; restored with new chancel, 1845 by B. Ferrey; present chancel 1889-90 by Bodley and Garner; recent restoration completed 1952 by Caröe, the younger. West tower. Nave with clerestory (1430), north and south aisles; south porch; chancel, north (Hungerford) Chapel. Ashlar; partly rubble to porch and east part of south aisle; Cotswold stone slate roofs with slate roof to chancel. Embattled parapets.

West tower: three stages, set back buttresses with off-sets which turn into diagonal pinnacles in upper stages; embattled parapet with pinnacles; square stair turret on south-east corner, terminates as octagon; three-light window to bell chamber with cusped heads; similar but larger window with transom to west; west door has hollow chamfer and ogee moulded surround with four-centred arch lintel and drip mould, arms carved in spandrels, heads as label stops (1975) are Edward Henderson, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Major Horton-Fawkes, patron of the living.

South aisle: two three-light windows to west of porch with four-centre arch lintels, drip moulds with diamond label stops; to east of porch four-light square headed window with cusped heads, drip mould and carved label stops; angle buttress with pinnacle to west, low buttress to east with scratch dial.

North aisle: three- and four-light square headed windows. Rood stair turret: c.1430-50; projects in re-entrant angle between south aisle and chancel; polygonal east face; embattled parapet with pinnacle.

Chancel: in matching Perpendicular style; three-light windows under four-centred arch lintels; decorative finial on apex of east gable; five-light east window. South porch: rendered to front; diagonal buttresses with pinnacles; ashlar plain parapet which is ramped up at front to form concave sided gable, central pinnacle and niche below containing modern (?C19) figure of St. Julian; embattled parapets to sides; heavily moulded door surround.

Interior south porch. Fine C14 south door with six-lights of blank panels below and reticulated cusped tracery above; heavily moulded, restored door surround; two carved niches above; carved angel corbels to porch roof.

Nave: four bays with typical Perpendicular moulding of four hollows and four engaged columns; panelled and decorated Perpendicular roof (restored) with corbels, carved as angels; many Perpendicular benches with poppy heads and simple panelled tracery on ends, (Some on fronts or backs).

Tower. Arch of similar Perpendicular moulding; tierceron vault with central bell rope opening. Rood. Finely carved and decorated Perpendicular rood screen of c.1430; rood loft and rood itself are by Caröe, the younger, 1952. Squints to either side of rood screen, with cusped heads. Chancel. c.1889-90 with fittings of that date; eight carved heads, early C14, of kings and bishops set below first south window; four further heads, two to either side of east window; restored piscina. North (Hungerford) Chapel: c.1443; moulded, carved and painted screen; panelled and decorated roof; probably Easter Sepulchre in north wall, panels of quatrefoils below, four-centred arch head with cusped panels, inscription (about building of chapel) reads "For the love of Jesu and Mary's sake Pray for them that this lete make"; on east, wall paintings of c.1500 of Christ and 12 Apostles; carved and painted niche head in north-east corner, tomb chest to Dorothy Popham, 1614, heavily mannered Jacobean Ionic columns and entablature, strapwork and arms above; other tablets to the Hungerfords, Ursula (1645), Susanna (1652), Giles (1638). North aisle: carved effigy of priest, c.1400 in four centred arch headed recess; Font at west end, possibly c.1250 on Romanesque base, eight lobed bowl on circular foot with eight attached shafts; painted ogee shaped cover, 1623. South aisle. Monument to John Hodson, 1733 with oredicule Warrior Chapel at east end - elaborate cartouche to Thomas Scudamore, 1718; piscina.

Listing NGR: ST7418358400

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Julian, Wellow at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5117464

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