Church of St Swithin

CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1099453
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1985
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1099453
Date first listed:
03-Jul-1985
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ganarew
National Grid Reference:
SO 52948 16329

Details

SO 51 NW GANAREW CP GANAREW

5/5 Church of St Swithin

GV II

Parish church. c1850 by J Pritchard of Llandaff. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, decorative tiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles. Nave, south porch and chancel with north vestry. Decorated style. Nave: 2 square-headed windows with hoodmoulds have cusped ogee-headed lights and spandrels, 2-light window to west and 3-light to east flanking gabled porch. Square-set bellcote partly supported by a central buttress at west end has similar cusped ogee-headed openings in square surrounds and spirelet with decorative lucarnes, 3-cusped ogee-headed lancets to chancel. Interior: decorative arch-braced roof with moulded members and cusped wind-braces, mock sepulcural recess in north wall of chancel with cusping and crocket ornament.

Listing NGR: SO5294916326

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