Description

CLAVERDON

SP16SE CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/5/16 (North side)
05/04/67 Church of St Michael and All Angels

GV II*

Church. Chancel and chancel arch mainly c1350 with C16
windows, tower c1450, nave and aisles rebuilt 1876 by Ewan
Christian in C14 style with C20 restorations.
MATERIALS: lias limestone with timber porch and Welsh slate
roofs.
PLAN: 2-stage west tower, 2-bay nave with clerestory, aisles
and south porch, 2-bay chancel with single-bay organ chamber
to north and single-bay vestry to south.
EXTERIOR: tower: chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses with
off-sets to 3/4 height; south-east stair turret to first
stage. West entrance has double plank doors in 4-centre arched
surround with double-chamfered hollow moulding to head. Above,
a 3-light Perpendicular window with chamfered mullions and
surrounds, hoodmould. First stage moulded band. Second stage:
slit window to south with continuous hoodmould; 2-light belfry
windows with reticulated tracery and hollow-moulded
hoodmoulds. Crenellated parapet above string course.
Nave: buttresses between bays and to ends; chamfered plinth.
South porch: cambered-arched opening, to front and sides are
windows with reticulated-type tracery, brattished frieze,
decorative bargeboards to gable end. Entrance within has
double plank doors in double-chamfered pointed-arched surround
with 2 orders of roll-moulding and hollow-moulding between;
roll-moulded hood with curl stops.
South aisle: 3-light straight-headed window, to east and west
ends of aisle are 2-light pointed-arched windows.
North aisle: two 2-light straight-headed windows. Clerestory,
north and south alike: four 2-light windows. All windows have
reticulated-type tracery to heads and quoined surrounds.
Chancel: westernmost bays are occupied by organ chamber and
vestry, north and south sides alike: entrance has double plank
doors in Caernarven-arched, chamfered surround; pair of cusped
lights in straight-headed surround; east ends have each a
2-light pointed window with reticulated-type tracery to head.
Chancel second bay has 3-light mullion and transom window to
each side. East end has 3-light window with reticulated-type
tracery to head. Raised gables with copings.
INTERIOR: nave roof on corbels; chancel has barrel-vaulted
roof. Tall, narrow, double-chamfered 4-centred tower arch, to
south of this a small plank door in pointed, chamfered
surround to stair turret.
Nave arcade has 2 double-chamfered, 4-centred arches with
continuous roll-moulded hoodmould on central octagonal column
and end column-corbels. Continuous moulded sill band to
clerestory.
Windows to nave and clerestory have deep chamfered jambs and
quoins. Pointed, double-chamfered chancel arch on pair of
slender C19 shafts. To east end of aisles are
double-chamfered, 4-centred arches, further similar arches to
first bay of chancel, the inner orders on corbels.
STAINED GLASS: chancel windows have quoins. Continuous moulded
sill band to east. East window glass by Kempe.
FITTINGS: pulpit in C14 French style inscribed 'CLOVELLY / AUG
12TH 1879'.
MONUMENTS: alabaster and stone monument to Thomas Spencer
d.1630, son of Sir John Spencer of Althorp d.1586, probably
Elizabethan with 2 black columns and shallow coffered arch,
the surfaces covered with rustically treated foliage trails.
Forms a group with all listed items in Churchyard (qv) and
with Porlock View and Church View (qv).
(Ross CE: Claverdon Parish Church: St Michael and All Angels).

Listing NGR: SP1983164577

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551842

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)