Description

SP OO SE AMPNEY CRUCIS AMPNEY CRUCIS VILLAGE

5/13 Church of the Holy Rood

26.11.58

GV I

Anglican parish church. Saxon foundation, with some Norman work and elements from all periods including C15 tower and re-roofing of nave, up to restoration of 1870. Mostly coursed limestone with some random walling with quoins, ashlar tower. Stone slate roof to chancel, porch and vestry, with coped verges and saddlestones with cross finials. Remainder of roofs not visible. Basically cruciform plan with west tower, nave with south porch and transepts, chancel with north vestry. Tower of 3 stages with string courses and plinth, diagonal stepped buttresses and embattled parapet, and corner gargoyles on string course below parapet. Tall lowest stage with 2-light west window, 2-light arched belfry louvres to each face of top stage. Nave roof lowered in C15 and embattled parapet added with single-arch bellcote at east end. Originally with clerestorey, of which 2 small windows remain above south transept. Two 3-light Perpendicular windows to north and south in nave, with wall tablet to east of Early English south porch entrance. North wall has Saxon doorway obscured on outside and inside by heating installation, with flanking single light Norman windows with splayed inner reveals, partially blocked on east side. Three-light Perpendicular east window to chancel, cutting across a string course, and Decorated 2-light window, priest's door of C19, wall tablet and single light on south wall, 1870 vestry to north. Transepts of late C13 with windows of different periods on each wall. South porch has stone side seats and square niche to right, and original inner door. Interior: C15 nave roof of 7 bays, with 3 moulded transverse beams supported on slightly cambered braced cross beams, with struts to stone corbels. Transitional chancel arch with chevron moulding and carved capitals. Transepts have Early English arches and Jacobean pews. North transept has remains of C14 wall paintings around windows which have cusped rere-arches, Early English piscina and credence, large recumbent effigies of George Lloyd and wife (died 1584) on tomb chest with pedimented canopy on fluted columns. South transept has series of slate wall tablets in Latin of C17 to Pleydell family, recording date and hour of death. Marble monument to Robert Pleydell (died 1719) by Edward Stanton in chancel. Plain Norman cylindrical font, Perpendicular stone pulpit. (David Verey, The Buildings of England - Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SP0649301895

External Links

• Church of the Holy Rood at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17524749

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