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St Catherine

St Catherine

Tugford

Shropshire

C12 nave, C14 chancel and C14 west tower with early C18 rebuilt upper stages.

Architectural Features

Plain-tile roof with ashlar coped gable and gutterless rendered deep eaves soffit, tiled pyramid tower roof with weather-vane.

Small blocked doorway on south with tympanum with carved low-relief semicircular cable and roll ornamentation.

Nave: north wall with blocked and rendered round headed doorway, C12 round-headed lancet, with, to left, a Decorated pointed window of twin cusped lancets and trefoil over.

2 chamfered blocked openings, 2 Decorated broad cusped lancets flanking C13 buttress

late C12 south doorway of moulded round-headed arch, with keel and lozenge pattern outer arch-ring, deep moulded abaci, filleted shafts with capitals with undercut foliage to left and scallop with rosette to right, label stops with hoodmould missing.

Late C12 or C13 chalice font with 16-sided fluted panelled bowl set on a cable mould and a cylindrical stem.