Description

SP15NE
8/26
11/12/69

WILMCOTE
CHURCH ROAD
(West side)
Church of St. Andrew

GV
II

Small church. 1840-42. Attributed to William Butterfield (VCH), but attribution
not accepted by Paul Thompson. Built for the Knottesford Fortescue family.
Regular coursed lias with limestone ashlar dressings. Tile roofs with coped
gables. Aisled nave and chancel, north vestry. Early English style. 4-bay nave,
2-bay chancel. Angle buttresses and lancets with continuous hood moulds
throughout. Chancel has triple east lancets with string course at sill, and
quatrefoil above. Buttresses with gablets. Gable has foliated cross. Single
south window. Roof has corbel table. Small north door in lean-to porch with east
window. South aisle has 4 windows and east window; north aisle has 3 north
windows only. Nave and chancel roof in one; aisles have lean-to roofs of same
pitch, but slightly lower. West entrance between 2 lancets has chamfered arched
doorway with stilted outer arch, and plank door with ironwork. String course at
sill level continued up over door as gable with stiff-leaf finial. Pointed
elliptical window above has moulded surround. Gable has small louvred wood
bellcote. Far-projecting vestry, possibly a later addition, at right angles to
north aisle, has west door with hood mould continued across wall. North window.
Blank east wall of imitation ashlar cement. Interior: Plastered or whitewashed
walls. Chancel has 2 pairs of sedilia. Small elaborate niche and bracket on
north wall has trefoiled arch with shafts and gable, and bracket supported on
stiff-leaves clasped in a hand. Elaborate painting, stencilling and gilding on
every surface, including panelled wagon roof. Encaustic tile paving. Chancel
arch on short colonette corbels. Nave has 4-bay arcade of 2 chamfered orders and
round piers with 4 fillets. West internal porch, gallery overt west arch and
west wall of aisles elaborately painted and stencilled. Queen strut roof with
arched braces on colonnette corbels. Narrow aisles, lower than arcade. Walls
covered with scenes from the life of Christ painted in monochrome on zinc
sheets, said to have been painted by the incumbent c.1870. Fittings: Arcaded
stone altar. Carved stone pulpit with later monochrome paintings c.1870.
Cylindrical stone font with carved interlace ornament, and elaborate ironwork on
lid. Stained glass: East window c.1857, south aisle east mid C19; good quality
medieval style work. Sculpture: Flemish relief of c.1520 (Buildings of England)
on west wall. A good, very largely complete example of a Tractarian-influenced
church interior.
(V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.III, p. ; Buildings of England: Harwicksfiire,
pp.473-471; Paul Thompson: William Butterfield, p.56).

Listing NGR: SP1638657892

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26638188

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)