Anglican Church Of All Saints

The C13 west tower is in three stages

The south porch has a late-C13 pointed-arched entrance with paired shafts and a trefoil-headed image niche above.

above it is inserted part of a probably C12 coffin slab with an incised cross.

On the west wall are collected a number of monuments dating from before the 1870s rebuilding, including several to members of the Coxe family.

The south aisle, which was built using stone from the demolished church at nearby Ewen, includes a good C12-C13 sedilia, Early English in style: a two-bay recess with one narrower bay.

Alongside the sedilia is a C14 arched tomb recess, with deeply and richly moulded, chamfered arch with crocketed labels, and unusual cusping bearing carved heads.

Currently, the recess houses a complete medieval stone coffin with a coped lid.

At the SE corner the remains of the C15 rood stair.

The three-light east window is Early English in style, with single shafts between the lancets, and modern stained glass.

The REREDOS, of 1877, is tile, with inscriptions of The Apostles’ Creed, The Lord’s Prayer and The Ten Commandments, by Maw and Co of Shropshire.

PRINCIPAL FITTINGS The FONT is in the north aisle: a C14 octagonal font with moulding to the stem, on a low C19 base and apron.

The PULPIT, timber with tracery on a moulded stone base, dates from 1872.

The PRIEST’S STALL on the south side of the chancel is a good late Arts and Crafts piece designed by Norman Jewson and made in 1937 by Peter Waals of Chalford, given in memory of Aneurin Gabe Jones, who was vicar 1914-1935.

A few fragments of medieval STAINED GLASS survive in the east window of the south aisle, otherwise apart from the east window in the chancel, the glass is plain, diamond patterned, of circa 1877.

The bell frame was renewed in 1905-6, and a new bell added to the existing peal of four, dating from the C17, C18 and C19.

PRINCIPAL MONUMENTS In the north transept, the C14 effigy of a knight, cross-legged, carved in low relief in lias stone, with a trefoiled canopy over the head, similar to that on the recess in the south aisle

the effigy may be that of Sir Roger Normaund, who died in 1349.

Above it, a painted timber monument to Beata Pitt and her son, Edward The remaining monuments of note were all resited on the west wall during the 1870s restoration.

The monument to Elizabeth Coxe , by Ricketts of Gloucester, is of white and grey marble with an urn, volutes and heraldic devices.

Ann Coxe’s monument of 1790, by John and Joseph Bryan of Painswick and Gloucester, has a draped urn and heraldry.

Charles Coxe has a Greek Revival monument by Reeves and Son of Bath.