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Latitude: 51.9399 / 51°56'23"N
Longitude: -1.7442 / 1°44'38"W
OS Eastings: 417683
OS Northings: 226847
OS Grid: SP176268
Mapcode National: GBR 4PV.9W5
Mapcode Global: VHB1P.QH9R
Plus Code: 9C3WW7Q4+W8
Entry Name: Church of St Mary
Listing Date: 25 August 1960
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1221790
English Heritage Legacy ID: 413694
Also known as: house of worship
ID on this website: 101221790
Location: St Mary's Church, Upper Swell, Cotswold, Gloucestershire, GL54
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold
Civil Parish: Swell
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: The Swells
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: Church building
SWELL B 4077 (UPPER SWELL)
SP 12 NE
(north side)
3/118 Church of St Mary
25.8.60
GV I
Parish church. C12 origins and fabric. Early C13 chancel; C15 and early C16
remodelling of nave. Chancel rubble built, the rest largely ashlar on a plinth;
Cotswold stone roof, coped gable. Plain rectangular 3-bay nave with 2 bay chancel
and gabled south porch; bellcote (2 bells) to west gable. Round head lancets to
chancel, lowside window to south; 3-light lancet type east window; nave has 3-light
flat head c.1500 window to south with moulded surround and label. Early C15 porch
with diagonal buttresses and original trussed rafter roof shelters Norman doorway
with chevron outer order and flat, keeled roll, tympanum (defaced), volute caps
to nook shafts. Interior: Arch braced collar trusses to nave C15; plastered walls
with wall shafts (?); Norman chancel arch with outer order of hollow chevron and
inner order on scalloped corbel caps. Pillar piscina to chancel linked to sedile,
aumbry in east wall; east window (restored?) with rere-arcade and Purbeck shafts.
Marble wall monument to the Rev Henry Brown, died 1795, by C Peart of London, oval
cartouche with urn and drapes. Font: Octagonal C15 chalice type with tracery
panelling. BOE(Verey) : Gloucestershire, The Cotswold (1970)
Listing NGR: SP1768326847
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