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St Thomas Beckett

St Thomas Beckett

Stourton

Warwickshire

Early and late C13

Architectural Features

C14 and C15 with some C16 alterations

C20-tile chancel roof with slate nave roof

Chancel rebuilt early C13

with lengthening of late C13

C13 hollow-moulded corbel table

with carved grotesques

To east a late C13 window of 3 stepped lancets and bar tracery of 3 cusped roundels

To south wall a late C13 priests doorway of 2 hollow-moulded orders with broach stops

Above right, to centre of south wall, a single-chamfered lancet with rounded hood mould and carved-head labels

To right a C13 window of lights with single trefoil tracery (now distorted). Hood-mould with carved head labels

To left of doorway a C15 square-headed window of 2 cusped ogee-headed lights

To north wall left a late C13 window of 2 cusped and hollow-moulded lights with tracery within a hollow-moulded surround

Rounded hood-mould with carved head labels

To centre and right an early C13 lancet

Part C12 nave

rebuilt C15 and C19 of 3 bays with C15 clerestory

To south, within tower, a restored C14 pointed doorway

To right of tower a late C13 pointed window of 2 cusped lights and central quatrefoil within many-moulded surround

To left of porch a restored C15 window with C19 or C20 square head

To north wall a C12 semi-circular arched doorway with chamfered surround, hood mould and relieving arch

To north and south a C15 clerestory, that to north with 3 square-headed windows, each with 2 ogee-headed cusped lights

To rebuilt west wall a similar part-restored C15 square-headed window of 3 lights

C14 south tower of 2 stages with moulded plinth

string course dividing first and second stages and moulded corbel table with broken gargoyles

To south a C14 pointed doorway with many-molded surround and hood mould with broken labels

Worn carving at apex of hood mould

Above doorway, to south, a C14 square-headed window of 2 ogee-headed cusped lights with quatrefoil tracery and hood mould with labels

C14 bell-chamber openings, each square-headed with 2 ogee-headed cusped lights and worn hood moulds with labels

Interior: east window of chancel has moulded rere-arch with hood mould and carved head labels

Easternmost windows of north and south walls are similarly moulded, with hood molds and carved head and foliage labels

Central windows in north and south walls have hood mould and carved head and beast labels

To north wall a further carved head corbel

To south wall a C13 cusped

with bowl supported by a worn carved head

C13 chancel arch, probably rebuilt late C19, of 2 chamfered orders, the inner order with moulded bases and imposts

At apex of hood mould, to west, a carved pair of heads

C19 nave roof with traceried spandrels supported on C15 moulded corbels

Further corbels to east, that to north a carved bearded head

C19 stained glass in south chancel windows