Church of St George
CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381966
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381966
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St George
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GEORGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newbold Pacey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 29891 57138
Details
NEWBOLD PACEY
SP25NE NEWBOLD PACEY
1901-1/2/160 Church of St George
05/04/67
GV II*
Church. C11. Rebuilt after fire 1880-2 by JL Pearson. Dressed
coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; steeply pitched red
old tile roofs with ornamental cresting.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel with catslide vestry and organ loft; 3-bay
nave with porch in 3-stage saddleback north-west tower and
south transept and catslide south aisle. Early English style.
Plain cornices; sill courses; windows have hood moulds with
roughed-out stops; 3 iron gable crosses.
EXTERIOR: chancel has stepped triplet of lancets to east end,
with 2 lights with quatrefoil above to vestry; north side has
gabled buttress between 3-light windows with lancet tracery;
south side has entrance with 3 lights to left, 2 to right;
truncated lateral stack to right. Nave north side has 2
3-light windows with lancet tracery.
Tower has arch of 2 orders to porch with hood mould continued
as sill course; re-set C12 inner doorway of single order with
lattice diaper and interlacing to capitals and billet and
cable mouldings to hood, mass dial to right; second stage has
lancet, and cinquefoils to returns; bell-stage is recessed
with sill course, clasping buttresses and corbel table; pairs
of louvred bell-openings, and similar openings to gables;
weathervane.
West end has 4 lancets with sexfoil above; 2-light plate
tracery to aisle. Transept has 3-light plate-tracery window;
aisle has re-set C12 round-headed doorway with plain arch
framed by roll moulding with bases and imposts with cable
reeding, plank door with enriched strap hinges; 2 south
windows as that to west.
INTERIOR: arches have hoods with roughed-out stops. Chancel
has waggon roof; 2-light arcade to vestry and organ loft;
richly carved reredos: 3 ogival arches with St Michael and St
George flanking Christ in Glory, flanking curtains. 2-bay
south arcade on quatrefoil pier, with to east a cusped recess
and segmental-pointed sedilia recess; chancel arch is richly
moulded on triple shafts, with 2 low walls. Nave has
arch-braced collars to crown post roof, ashlaring and ogee
wind-braces; 2-bay arcade on round piers, with octagonal pier
to west of transept arch; transept has east and west arches
dying into jambs.
FITTINGS: chancel has altar rail on wrought-iron posts and
scrolls; hexagonal sanctuary lamp with pendant and
brattishing; plain furniture. Nave has polygonal pulpit with
moulded stone base and timber panels with blind tracery and
deep cornice; timber lectern has eagle on wide base and
octagonal shaft; font has octagonal bowl on stop-chamfered
square pier with 4 squat free-standing shafts.
MEMORIALS: Edward Carew, d.1668, and his infant daughter;
re-set marble memorial to north wall with oval recess in good
architectural setting has demi-figure with hand on heart, and
baby on ledge in front, swan-necked pediment with armorial
bearings to centre and sides, funeral helm and crest hang
above. Group of re-set tablets to west wall includes William
Little, d.1834; Grecian-style wall tablet with relief of
Charity.
STAINED GLASS: east window by Hardman and Co, panels in
decorative setting; glass to west lights dated 1886 and 1890.
Aisle has free-standing stove. Wood panel in porch records
donation by Incorporated Church Building Society in 1880.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 361-2; Shell Guides:
Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 133; Victoria County
Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of
Warwickshire: 1945-: 123).
Listing NGR: SP2989157138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482331
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 123
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 361-2
Hickman, D, Shell Guides in Warwickshire, (1979), 133
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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