| Description | Church, built 1878, by Sir Arthur Blomfield. Constructed of rock faced magnesian limestone, and red tile roofs. Small building of cruciform plan, with crossing tower. In 12th century northern French style. Short buttressed 3 bay nave; gabled south porch to lst bay has 2 centred arched outer doorway with set in shafts which have stiff leaf capitals (now heavily eroded), and deeply undercut moulding to the arch with dogtooth decoration, and a hoodmould; above the door, a lozenge carved with the emblem of the Evangelist; small coupled lancets in each side wall. Nave has single and coupled lancets with hoodmoulds. Transepts have tall coupled lancets with quatrefoils above and gable copings with apex crosses. South transept has a 2 centred arched moulded doorway on east side. Short apsidal chancel has a sill band and a single lancet in each side. Crossing tower of one stage has three deeply recessed lancet belfry louvres in each side, with linked hoodmoulds, steeply pitched pyramidal roof. Interior has rib vaulted crossing and apse.
(Text edited from English Heritage's National Heritage List of England, amended 1987) |