CHURCH OF ST GILES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1035112
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Feb-1990
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, GLASSHOUSE LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES, GLASSHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lapworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 16990 72811
Details
LAPWORTH GLASSHOUSE LANE
SP17SE (East side)
Packwood
1/28 Church of Saint Giles
05/12/49 (Formerly listed as Packwood
Church, Glasshouse Lane,
Packwood, in the Urban
District of Solihull)
6V II*
Church. Nave and chancel of c.1300; tower of c.1500; north transept of c.1704;
C19 vestry and organ bay. Squared random coursed stone; brick to north transpet;
C20 plain-tile roofs to nave, chancel and transept; roof of tower not visible.
2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave, single-bay. North transept and west tower.
Timber-framed on stone plinth to left of centre of nave. 2-centre arched
doorway with ribbed wood door. Lancets with trefoil heads to left, and to right
of centre of nave. Y-tracery window to right of nave. Blocked 2-centre arched
doorway to left of centre of chancel. Lancet with trefoil head to left of
chancel. Y-tracery window to right of chancel. East end of chancel: 3-light
intersecting tracery window. North side: Y-tracery window to left of chancel.
Cusped lancets to organ bay at right of chancel. Round-headed 3-light
Intersecting tracery window to end of North transept. Irregular C19 fenestration
to vestry at left of nave. Lancet with trefoil head to right of nave. Tower:
west side; 4-centre arched doorway with carved spandrels and hood mould. 3-light
Perpendicular tracery window above. Single-light glazed rectangular opening to
each side of ringers chamber. Stair turret projects to south, with sundial.
Battlemented parapet. Interior: 2-bay Queen-post roof with wind braces to
chancel. Cusped piscina to right of altar. Some medieval glass fragments to side
windows of chancel. C18 altar rail with wood baluster balustrade. C15 chancel
screen with lancet-openings to top. C19 choir stalls. 2-centre chancel arch.
3-bay collar-truss roof to nave. C19 wood pulpit, and pews. C19 octagonal stone
pillar supportingprobably C13 round stone font. 2-centre arch to tower. Round arch
to transept with C17 transept screen. Memorials to Featherston family of
Packwood Hall. Medieval wall paintings above chancel arch. History: tower built
at the expense of Nicholas Brome, Lord of Baddesley Clinton manor, who
discovered his wife being "chucked under the chin" by the parish priest and
murdered him. In atonement he financed the tower at Packwood and at Baddesley
Clinton churches. The transept was built for the Featherston family of Packwood
House.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire 1966, p370; H.H. Fox: A New Guide to
Packwood Church: guide book: 1985)
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Listing NGR: SP1699072811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308291
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Fox, H H , A New Guide to Packwood Church Warwickshire, (1985)
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 370
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
