British Listed Buildings

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Listing Text

DODDERHILL CP CHURCH LANE (north side)
SO 96 NW
Wychbold
6/8 Church of St Mary de Wyche

- II

Parish church. 1888-9 by Lewis Shepherd of Worcester. Random rubble,
ashlar dressings, machine tile roof. Nave, chancel, north vestry, north
and south transepts, tower in angle between chancel and south transept.
Decorated style. Tower: four stages, stepped angle buttresses, crenellated
parapet with pinnacles to corners; ground stage: door to south wall with
moulded 2-centred head, engaged shafts to responds and label; second stage:
two trefoiled lights under 2-centred head; third stage: two louvred lancets
each with a trefoil head. South and north transepts: each with three trefoiled
lights under 2-centred head with label. Nave: four bays, three windows in
south wall of two trefoiled lights under 2-centred head, door in west bay
with timber porch, 2-centred head to door; west window: five trefoiled
lights under 2-centred head with label; four windows in north wall.
Chancel: string course, stepped angle buttresses, two bays, western bay
occupied by vestry to north, tower to south, two trefoiled light window
to south; east window: three trefoiled lights under 2-centred head.
Interior: brick walls with ashlar dressings; 2-centred arches to chancel
and transepts; chancel: two-seat sedilia. The ecclesiastical parish of
Wychbold was formed from Dodderhill in 1888. (BoE p 377; VCH 3, p 68).


Listing NGR: SO9295865885

Source: English Heritage

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