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St Mary and Corpus Christi

St Mary And Corpus Christi

Down Hatherley

Gloucestershire

C15 Perpendicular tower otherwise rebuilt c1860 by Fulljames and Waller of Gloucester.

Architectural Features

C19 plank door west wall with decorative strap hinges, 'Tudor'-arched 3-light window with Perpendicular tracery, moulded surround and stopped hood over.

2- light belfry windows with 'Tudor'-arched surrounds and stone louvres in all 4 faces of tower.

Embattlemented parapet with moulded string below and gargoyles at each corner.

Buttressed nave lit by four 2- light C19 windows with tracery and hoods with carved head stops.

Grade II* listed parish church dating from the 15th century

Tall pointed double-chamfered C15 arch to west tower now blocked C19 wooden screen.

Grade II* listed parish church dating from the 15th century

© Graham Hogg

Plain tile floor in nave and south aisle, similar flooring in chancel with some decorative encaustic tiles below sanctuary.

C19 arch- braced hammer-beam roof to nave with stone corbels decorated with naturalistic foliate carving.

Arch-braced roof to chancel with engaged projecting colonette supports with carved angel or foliate decoration.

small circular late Tudor lead font, probably originally of larger diameter with raised acanthus, star, sun and lozenge decoration, C19 sandstone base with foliate decoration, circular wooden C19 lid with upstanding wrought iron decoration.

Early wooden chest with 3 locks and later lid west of font.

Octagonal stone pulpit with circular roundels outlined with crocketed decoration, and panels finely carved floral or leaf decoration.

Monuments

Monuments: hatchment at west end of nave, two hatchments in tower from the funeral of Sir Matthew Wood and four monuments removed, to tower during C19 rebuilding.

monument to Elizabeth Bathurst Gibbs, died 1763, white marble on cream background with triangular pediment containing heraldic shield, urn at apex.

Top right, late C17 monument to Hester Evans, wife of Henry Brett of Hatherley and other members of the Brett family, limestone with heraldic cherubs head with oval plaque at bottom.

Monument lower left to Louisa Woodbridge Turner, died 1821, marble with urn in relief against grey background above.

Monument lower right to Thomas Loveday, died 1804.

C19 stained glass in memory of members of the Maddy family in chancel, two stained glass windows in nave.