Architectural Features
Purple tile roof.
Restored C14 style 2-light window with tracery to nave on left.
C16 north transept
Similar C16 window to gable end in almost round-headed surround with tracery and stopped hood.
Similar C16 north window in round- headed surround with tracery and stopped hood.
C19 hollow-moulded stone- mullioned window with carved spandrels and stopped hood.
Small C12 tympanum with motif representing Zechariah's golden seven-branched candlestick above window.
Church of St Nicholas and All Saints at Lower Dowdeswell. The church dates from the 12th century with alterations and addiction made over the following centuries. The church is Grade I listed, see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1154480
Monument to Robert Rogers, died 1777, left of window.
Two-light stone-mullioned, hollow-chamfered mid C18 window in left-hand wall with carved spandrels and stopped hood.
Broach spire, built 1577 with 2-light round-headed stone-mullioned belfry windows with small 'eye-brow'- shaped lights at top above stone louvres.
South wall of nave 2-light C14 window with trefoil-headed lights and vesica.
C16 south porch with 4-centred arched entrance, decorated spandrels on both sides of arch.
Interior: Mid C14 tall segmental-pointed double-chamfered archways to crossing from nave, transepts and chancel.
C15 unplastered barrel roof to chancel with moulded spine beam, purlins and wallplate.
Perpendicular octagonal font with quatrefoils at west end of nave.
SP0019 : Font in Dowdeswell Church
C19 wooden pulpit at south- east corner of crossing.
C19 wooden lectern and desk.
C20 brass communion rail.
C17 Dutch chandelier lighting chancel.
Home Farm, a Cotswold stone built house dating from the late 16th and early 17th century viewed from the churchyard of Dowdeswell church. The house is Grade II listed, see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1341344
Monuments
Brass of priest in processional robes of c1520 set within ledger to William Rogers at centre of chancel below sanctuary, two small brass roundels of similar date lower left and right.
C19 monument to Rev. Charles Corwell of Ablington Manor House, former rector, died 1854.
Fine monument to William Rogers, died 1734, left
West wall of south transept (from left to right): monument to Edward Rich of Upper Dowdeswell (q.v. The Manor House)
Monument to Bailey Rich, eldest son of Lionel Rich of Upper Dowdeswell, died 1728
large marble monument with heraldic shield at top.
monument to Major-General George Bridges, died 1896, with fluted Corinthian pilasters, pediment and heraldic shield.
painted stone with two draped figures with laurel leaf crowns right and left, shrouded body within segmental-pediment, heraldic shield at top flanked by 2 skulls, apron with angel's head and swag below.
North transept, west wall, monument to Edward Rogers, died 1810, white on grey marble monument with draped urn, various other C19 monuments mostly to members of the Rogers family.
Inscription incised into windowsill dated 1577 with inscription beginning 'THIS SPIER WAS BUILT BY WILLIAM ROGERS..' (and thereafter further names of benefactors in primitive script).
Hanoverian Royal arms over chancel arch.
Three other hatchments within church one of 1736 with the arms of Lionel Rich, one Rogers and Coxwell Rogers.
Stained glass in east window by J. Hartley, Wear Glass Works, c1849.
Stained glass in the east window of Dowdeswell Church.
C19 stained glass in east window by Nora Yoxall and Elsie Whitford of Blockley 1959.
C12 tympanum recorded as having been dug up from the site in a C19 guide to the church.