Description

BITTERLEY

SO67NW CLEETON ST MARY
482-1/7/77 Church of St Mary
23/11/92

II

Church. 1878. By T Nicholson of Hereford for Rev George
Pardoe. Coursed squared stone with stone dressings and
plain-tile and shingle roofs, with stone-coped gables and
finials. Early English style.
PLAN: chancel, nave, west tower within nave, south porch, and
north organ chamber and vestry.
EXTERIOR: plinth, buttresses with offsets and continuous
string course running over most windows as a hoodmould.
Chancel: triple lancets to east, 2 lancets to south and
lean-to vestry to north with small paired lancets and
north-east door. Nave: single and paired lancets and south
porch with timber-framed entrance arch decorated with
open-work trefoils and quatrefoil and ornamental bargeboards.
Single lancet to west of nave and single-stage tower above
with twin lancet bell-chamber openings, quatrefoil frieze and
shingle broach spire.
INTERIOR: roofs with curved braces to collars, the west bay
boarded. Chancel with aumbry, piscina and sedilia, choir
stalls and open-work screen. Nave has pulpit, font and pews.
Some stained glass. Narthex at west end formed of one large
and 2 small open arches, the large arch repeated to north and
south behind the arcade within the space and all supporting
the tower.

Listing NGR: SO6108178653

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663536

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)