Architectural Features
some C17 buttressing following Dissolution
MATERIALS: mainly of limestone ashlar with parapeted plain tile, stone-tile and lead roofs.
adjacent are three bays of C13 crocketed blind arcading of former sedilia and piscina, with quatrefoil mouldings
Tower: of four stages, completed 1330
Chancel: rebuilt following fire in 1223, has polygonal E end with pointed E arch of six orders with roll mouldings supported by stiff-leaf capitals above clustered piers of detached or 3/4 round shafts, some of Purbeck marble
wider arch to former E chapel, now blocked and with inserted later-medieval blind arcading of eight bays of cusped tracery surmounted by coving with leaf motifs
FITTINGS: Romanesque font at NW with seated figures under billet-moulded arcade
Norman font in Pershore Abbey which was in use in the abbey until 1840 when it was replaced and removed. It spent some time as a cattle trough before ending up in a garden in the village of Kempsey to the south of Worcester. It was returned to the abbey in 1921. It is badly eroded but depicts thirteen figures, Christ and the twelve apostles.
Benefaction board to Henry Smith and others, 1626, on NE tower arch, has a painted inscription on painted boards within moulded wooden frame.
C18 hatchment over N entrance, of painted canvas with motto Resurgam
further hatchments in SE transept with inscriptions Morses Omnibus Communis and In Coelo Quies.
MONUMENTS: freestanding effigies in S transept include: to E, an abbot, possibly William de Harvington or Abbot Hert, on tomb chest incorporating quatrefoils
to W, a cross-legged knight in chain mail, possibly Sir William de Harley, C13
on SW wall, painted Haselwood wall monument commemorates Thomas, d. 1624, Elizabeth, and Sir Francis, and comprises one recumbent and 2 kneeling figures, a blank inscription panel within cartouche to rear, 3 free-standing piers supporting elaborately-carved arms, and chest with strapwork panels and scagliola decoration
further monument to Fulke and Dorothy Haselwood has 9 children in relief
other modest C18 and C19 wall monuments
in S transept, free-standing war memorial with cast bronze figure of Immortality by Alfred Drury
Parchment inspeximus of the Royal Privileges of the Abbey of Pershore, 1453, in metal case fixed to crossing S wall.
C19 wallpainting in medieval style to W wall of crossing
traces of medieval wallpainting on crossing piers.
Section of late-medieval woodcarving incorporating inscription in NE transept
late-medieval wooden chest against W wall.
STAINED GLASS: includes windows by Clayton and Bell, Hardman and Co and Kempe.