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Church Dedication Unknown

Church Dedication Unknown

Old Passage

Gloucestershire

C15, restored 1866 by Pope and Bindon.

Architectural Features

Limestone rubble, freestone dressings, tower has coursed limestone and sandstone rubble with freestone open chequers, nave and chancel have mineralised felt roofs with coped verges and cross finials, nave finial broken, slate roof to vestry, double Roman tiled roof to porch.

diagonal weathered buttresses, weathered string courses, gargoyles at base of parapet, 3 to each side, embattled parapet, probably Tudor or later, with ball finials to merlons and pinnacles at corners, stair turret to south east crowned with ogee cap and cockerel weathervane, has quatrefoil openings at 1st and 2nd stage, slit window in plain surround at ground floor level, sandstone relieving arch on east side of tower.

Nave has C15 roof of 7 bays, flat tie-beam on short arched-braces with corbel heads, short crown posts, moulded purlins and ridge purlin, carved spandrels between arched-brace and tie-beam, and between principal rafter and tie-beam, brattished wall-plate

Chancel has segmental arch springing from late Perpendicular piers with carved imposts, one animal and one mask, 2-bay roof of same construction as nave with angels-as corbels and carved ceiling between rafters, lower part of east wall carved painted stone in square panels with non-repeating pattern of flowers and quatrefoil frieze, south door blocked, C19 carved north door with strap hinges in pointed arch, small piscina in south wall with shell bowl.

Fittings: C15 octagonal bowl font in nave with 2 small quatrefoils on each face on a circular shaft with a square buttress at each corner of the octagon

C19 Perpendicular stone pulpit with carved symbols of the evangelists on 4 faces

Astry arms on hatchment in tower

baroque black and white marble wall monument in chancel to Sir Samuel Astry, 1704 and other members of the family, by Edward Stanton

3 marble monuments with urns, one in chancel, 2 in nave, all by W. Paty, late C18.