Description

HAWKESBURY C.P. HAWKESBURY ST 78 NE 4/104 Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin 3.3.61

G.V. I

Parish Church (Anglican). C12th but on the site of a Saxon church; Early English, early C13th (Chancel); C14th; the majority of the church is in the Perpendicular style of the late C14th and C15th, restored 1882 - 85 by W Wood Bethell of Bristol. West tower; nave with clerestorey; south aisle and chapel; north and south porches; chancel. Rubble, coursed and random, squared to tower, with freestone dressings, ashlar north porch; Cotswold stone slate roof to chancel. West tower: C15th of 6 stages with diagonal buttresses; small Perpendicular embattled parapet with gargoyles, C19th spirelet at south-east at top of south-east stair turret; single plain square headed windows to bell chamber. Nave: roof raised and clerestorey surmounted by embattled parapet added in C15th, tall 3-light square headed Perpendicular windows with cusped heads and under drip moulds; lower windows to clerestorey with cill band; buttresses with set-offs. Chancel: 2 lancet windows with roll mould surrounds, north-east window is early C14th. Y-tracery with cusped heads and cusped rere-arch on interior; restored Perpendicular 5-light east window; single lancet and 3-light windows (as Nave) on south side. South Aisle: Perpendicular windows as Nave. South Arch: plain 2 storeys, late Perpendicular with C18th sundial. North Porch: C15th; 2 storeys, diagonal buttresses with attached pinnacles to upper stages; plain parapet; 2-light cross window with cusped heads and under drip mould which has carved head stops. Interior: North doorway: Romanesque, 2 orders of roll moulding and outer arch decorated with dogtooth moulding; mutilated stoup. Nave; 4 bay arcade to south aisle with octagonal piers; the roof is a late C19th copy of the Perpendicular roof. South aisle - 2 ashlar doorways with 4-centred heads to rood stair and loft. Chapel - trefoil headed piscina. Chancel: Early English chancel arch with stiff stalk capital to south, but extensively rebuilt when the Nave roof was raised; C14th tomb recess or Easter sepulchre with cinquefoil canopy on north wall; double piscina with 2 centre heads which continue as cill bands on both sides of the Chancel. C15th roof. Pulpit: C15th, restored, with trefoil head panels and enriched top carved with vine leaf ornament, the vase stem incorporates fragments of Saxon interlaced work. Font: C17th but possibly a remodelling of an earlier font, octagonal bowl decorated with lozenges, fluted stem. Pews: C17th box pews, cut down and remodelled by Wood Bethell. Glass: reassembled mediaeval fragments in north window of nave, represents St Giles. Monuments: South aisle; an excellent chest tomb to Edward Cosin, 1689, with Ionic columns and heraldry with scrolls and cartouche; wall plaques to Cole 1773; Parnell 1791; Jobbins mid-C18th; Esbury 1766 by T Paty of Bristol; Curtis 1784 by W Lancashire of Bath. North wall of nave: James Cleare 1790, by W Paty of Bristol, oval coloured marble, trailing willow and urn. Chancel: north wall Sir Robert Jenkinson, 1766, sarcophagus with drapery and heraldry, coloured marble; 2nd Earl of Liverpool (died 1828), 1858; M Symonds 1719: south wall, 1st Earl of Liverpool, 1808, by R Westmacott. Verey D. The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, 1970.

Listing NGR: ST7681886925

External Links

• Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17530391

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