Description

COMBROOK

SP35SW VILLAGE STREET, Combrook
1901-1/6/50 (South East side)
02/08/72 Church of St Mary and St Margaret

GV II

Church. 1866. By John Gibson, incorporating chancel of 1831
with alterations.
MATERIALS: coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings;
steeply pitched old and renewed tile roof.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel and 5-bay nave with lean-to aisles and
bellcote. c1300 style. Coped gables.
EXTERIOR: chancel has a 3-light traceried east window; north
and south sides have straight-headed 2-light windows. Aisles
have diagonal buttresses and 2-light windows with head stops
to hood moulds in gabled half-dormers. West entrance has
elaborate open-work cusped gable on shafts with foliated
capitals and large angel corbels; rose window above. Gable has
bellcote with spire and weather-vane; angels to angles.
INTERIOR: flower-pot shaped font is possibly medieval.
STAINED GLASS: east window by Willement c1866; good glass to
west window.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 238-9; Victoria County
Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of
Warwickshire: 1945-: 107).

Listing NGR: SP3076251708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661932

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]