CHURCH DESCRIPTION

 

Church. 1812-13. Brick with stone dressing, slate roof. Nave of 2 storeys and 5 bays, west tower, 2 porches of 2 storeys in the angles between nave and tower.

 

Canted chancel apse with low flanking chapels, flat band over ground floor; top cornice and castellated parapets and gables.

 

Tower has added west porch; 3-face clock with diamond faces; bell stage has 2-light plate-traceried openings; top cornice and castellated parapet.

 

Windows have architraves with roll mouldings and 3-light fixed casements with intersecting tracery. East window of 5-lights with Perpendicular stone tracery, similar window to north of nave. Rainwater heads dated 1812 and 1824.

 

Interior has gallery on 3 sides, supported on slender iron columns; western bay now partitioned off. Chancel apse has flat ceiling with triangle amid rays. Wall monument on north wall of chancel to E. Mason (died 1814).

 

2 stained glass windows by W. Morris, 1870's, on north side of nave. Porches have stairs to gallery.

 

As can be seen in the details below, the Church has been renovated on numerous occasions in it’s 200+ years, the current renovation has received substantial support from English Heritage.