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Saint Martin

Preston Gubbals

Shropshire

C12, altered probably in the C14

Architectural Features

C15, partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1866 by Samuel Pountney Smith.

Plain tile roof.

Right-hand window is C14 or C15 and the left-hand windows are C19.

Chamfered round- arched C12 priest's doorway with boarded door.

C19 south doorway to left with continuously-moulded arch, hoodmould with carved stops, and boarded door with wrought-iron strap hinges.

Fittings: good carved wooden fittings made by a C19 vicar, the Revd.

Carved wooden altar table on low dais with carved front,and reredos with flanking creed, Lord's Prayer and commandment boards.

Carved wooden choir stalls, lectern and pulpit with pierced traceried panels.

Probably C16 octagonal stone font with moulded top, C19 base, and C19 wooden cover with wrought ironwork.

Probably C17 oak parish chest with single lock.

Monuments: early C14 carved stone coffin slab consisting of a bust of a man above a foliated cross set in a panel with rounded base and crocketed ogee canopy above.

C9

863-4, Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire and Shropshire , p.