← Database

St Phillip And St James

Tarrington

Herefordshire

Mainly C12 nave

Architectural Features

chancel, C16 tower, north arcade and aisle added 1836, the whole restored late C19 to early C20.

Nave has three late Cl9 to early C20 Decorated style windows, the north aisle two, with a re-set C12 blocked round-headed doorway to the east side containing two scalloped capitals and a plain typanum.

Chancel has two single-light C12 windows with diapered heads in the north wall

the rest of the windows restored C15: two with two cinquefoiled lights and Y-tracery opposite each other in the eastern bay

4-light cinquefoiled window on south side and to the east of it a blocked C16 Tudor-arch doorway.

Tower is C16 of three externally undivided stages, diagonal buttresses to north-west and south-west, four twin (re-used?) bell-openings each with cinquefoil heads separated by an octagonal-shaft, a 3-light late C19 to early C20 west window under a 4-centred head and a C18 doorway in the south wall.

South doorway is C12, round head, west capital similar to those on blocked north doorway and the east capital depicting (in restored form?) a man and a horse.

C12 chancel arch of two orders, the outer with restored chevrons, capitals similar to those of north and south doorways plus heads, patterned abaci

C13 or C14 piscina in chancel has 2-centred head

chamfers, above it in the east window of the south side are frag- ments of medieval stained glass including a crowned Virgin, probably C15

heads of C12 north windows in chancel have strange drilled holes, beneath them a C14 effigy of a woman set in a gabled crocketted ogee-headed recess decorated with ball-flowers and dog-teeth.

C16 tower-arch is 2-centred with crenellated imposts

C14 font has octagonal bowl with cusped panels supported on eight fillet-moulded shafts.

Pulpit is C19, 4-sided, supported on octagonal shaft, with top rail cresting, ogee and quatrefoil decoration to the panels.

In 1931 an excavation revealed that the church had until C15 alterations, a chancel-apse. (RCHM Vol II, p 182-3).