Description

TEMPLE GRAFTON

SP15SW VILLAGE STREET
1931-1/3/83 (North side)
Church of St Andrew

GV II

Church. 1875. By F Preedy, for JW Carlisle. Snecked blue lias
with sandstone ashlar dressings; tile roofs with some slate,
and shingle spire.
STYLE: Decorated.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel with north vestry/organ loft, and 3-bay
nave with lean-to north aisle and south porch-tower and spire.
EXTERIOR: plain plinth, off-set buttresses and coped gables
with crosses. Chancel has angle buttresses flanking small
buttress under 3-light single-chamfered traceried window;
north side has lancet and lateral stack with brick shaft;
lean-to vestry with slate roof, pointed east entrance, strap
hinges to door, north window of 3 trefoil-headed lights and
basement entrance; south side of chancel has buttress between
3-light and 2-light windows. Nave has 3-light windows and
buttresses to east of 3-stage tower.
Tower with angle buttresses and string courses, canted stair
turret to west; entrance has continuous mouldings, returns
have lancets; second stage has pairs of lancets; timber-framed
top stage has battered plinth with gabled clock faces with
fleurons, paired cusped 2-light bell-openings with louvres;
broached spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes.
Lean-to north aisle has slate roof and 3 pairs of
single-chamfered lancets.
West end has buttress between 4-light nave window, with
trefoil-headed light over, and 3 stepped lancets to aisle.
INTERIOR: ashlar walls banded with buff and grey stone.
Chancel has arch-braced roof of 2 pitches on foliate corbels,
chancel arch on short corbelled shafts; corbelled arch to
organ loft; nave arcade has moulded arches on round piers;
roof with arch-braced collar trusses alternating with
hammerbeam trusses; corbelled arch from aisle to vestry.
FITTINGS: timber reredos has blind tracery and 2 cusped arches
to each side with detached shafts; stalls and altar rail have
trefoil-headed arches; pulpit has 2-light trefoil-headed
panels and timber lectern with relief panels; font has
clustered shafts and trefoil-headed arcade.
STAINED GLASS: some good examples of late C19 and early C20
glass.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 433).

Listing NGR: SP1235854862

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662808

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)