Latitude: 51.9263 / 51°55'34"N
Longitude: -2.8456 / 2°50'44"W
OS Eastings: 341946
OS Northings: 225651
OS Grid: SO419256
Mapcode National: GBR FD.NYK0
Mapcode Global: VH78Q.MVH4
Plus Code: 9C3VW5G3+GP
Entry Name: Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 20 May 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1348834
English Heritage Legacy ID: 155544
Also known as: St Mary's Church, Kentchurch
ID on this website: 101348834
Location: St Mary's Church, Kentchurch, County of Herefordshire, HR2
County: County of Herefordshire
Civil Parish: Kentchurch
Traditional County: Herefordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Herefordshire
Church of England Parish: Kentchurch
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Church building
KENTCHURCH CP - SO 42 NW 5/10 Church of St Mary
GV II
Parish church. Rebuilt in 1859 in Decorated style. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; tiled roof. West tower with truncated pyramidal roof and spire; nave with south porch and chancel with north chapel and vestry. West tower: three stages with plinth and stepped buttresses, lancet to second stage, cusped bell openings below spire. Nave with large 3-light window with two-centred head and flower tracery to right of gabled porch. Chancel to right with square headed windows of three and two lights with similar tracery; 3-light windows to east end with mouchettes. Interior retains the Scudamore monument re-sited in the north chapel. Commemorates John Scudamore, died 1616, and erected by his wife, Amy Starkie. Reclining alabaster effigies of man in armour holding a book and below of a woman in contemporary dress wearing a widow's veil; flanking the two reclining figures are smaller paired figures of kneeling children, eight sons and one daughter, and also of an infant in a cradle. Inscription flanked by shields of arms reads: "HERE LYETH THE BODY OF JOHN SCVDAMORE OF KENCHVRCH IN THE COVNTIE OF HEREFORD ESQ ..... .... HE DECEASED ON THE XXXth DAY OF MARCH ANNO SALVTIS 1616."
Listing NGR: SO4194625651
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