Church of St Swithin, Ganarew
Description: Church of St Swithin
Grade: II
Date Listed: 3 July 1985
English Heritage Building ID: 153796
OS Grid Reference: SO5294816329
OS Grid Coordinates: 352948, 216329
Latitude/Longitude: 51.8436, -2.6844
Location: Ganarew, County of Herefordshire NP25 3SS
Locality: Ganarew
County: Herefordshire
Country: England
Postcode: NP25 3SS
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Listing Text
SO 51 NW GANAREW CP GANAREW
5/5 Church of St Swithin
GV II
Parish church. c1850 by J Pritchard of Llandaff. Coursed sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings, decorative tiled roof with bands of fishscale tiles.
Nave, south porch and chancel with north vestry. Decorated style.
Nave: 2 square-headed windows with hoodmoulds have cusped ogee-headed lights
and spandrels, 2-light window to west and 3-light to east flanking gabled
porch. Square-set bellcote partly supported by a central buttress at west
end has similar cusped ogee-headed openings in square surrounds and spirelet
with decorative lucarnes, 3-cusped ogee-headed lancets to chancel. Interior:
decorative arch-braced roof with moulded members and cusped wind-braces,
mock sepulcural recess in north wall of chancel with cusping and crocket
ornament.
Listing NGR: SO5294916326
Source: English Heritage
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