Description

WELFORD-ON-AVON

SP1452 CHURCH STREET
1931-1/7/132 (North side)
05/04/67 Church of St Peter

GV I

Church. c1330-40 nave and lowest stage of tower, which has
early C13 middle stage and C15 top stage; c1330-40 chancel;
aisles altered late C14; 1866-7 restoration by Sir G G Scott.
MATERIALS: coursed limestone and sandstone rubble and ashlar
dressings; machine tile roofs.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel with lean-to north vestry; 2-bay nave with
lean-to aisles, west tower and south porch.
EXTERIOR: off-set buttresses and coped gables. Chancel has
diagonal buttresses and renewed 3-light east window; north
side has 2-light window and vestry with re-set 2-light C14
east window and north entrance; south side has 2 windows of 2
lights flanking wall tablet to Richard Rawlings d.1727, with
worn inscription and segmental head with cherub; all windows
with Decorated tracery and hoods.
Nave has east gable with sanctus bellcote and coping swept
down to original line of south aisle gable. North aisle has
blocked C12 round-headed entrance and 3-light straight-headed
window with traceried lights and label moulds; small C12
round-headed west light.
South aisle has 3 restored off-set buttresses, cornice and
coped parapet with 2 pinnacles; gabled porch with
single-chamfered arch; C12 inner doorway altered C15 with
zig-zag moulding and inset single-chamfered arch with battened
doors; 3-light window to east of porch similar to that to
north, but lacking tracery and with head stops; buttress to
west has moulded off-sets, inset stone with shield and
graffito: I R 1673; 2-light C15 east window and small C12
round-headed west light.
Tower has tall lower stage with no buttresses and small C12
round-headed west light; middle stage with sill course to 2
lancets with roll-moulded jambs to continuous roll moulding
and angle pinnacles, Y-tracery louvred bell-openings; clock to
south face.
INTERIOR: chancel has scissor-truss roof with 2 king-strut
trusses; sedile recess to south window and ogee-headed
piscina; re-set vestry door.
Nave has 2-bay arcades with single-stepped round arches on
round piers with scallop capitals, arcade to north has later
water-holding bases; C19 roof with king post trusses; tower
arch with impost bands and west windows with wide splays.
FITTINGS: chancel has C19 stalls with tracery panels; c1920
war-memorial chancel screen with vine trail cornice and
brattishing. Nave has early C17 timber pulpit with flared base
and fielded panels, fluted top panels, incised frieze and
cornice; C13 font bowl with caps and bases to 4 shafts, now
with C17 balusters.
MONUMENTS: nave has slab indented for brass of C15 priest and
slab to Anne and William Iakeman, d.1723 and 1735.
STAINED GLASS: pieces of late C14 or early C15 glass re-set in
south chancel windows in 1936; some medieval glass to north
chancel window.
(Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 191-3; Buildings of England:
Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 467).

Listing NGR: SP1457552223

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528491

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas