Church of St Chad, Bishop's Tachbrook

Heritage listing

Details BISHOPS TACHBROOK Mallory Road (north side) 16/110 Church of Saint Chad 11.4.67 GV I Parish church. Circa mid-Cl2 origin indicated by the angles of the nave, blocked windows in north wall of chancel, and a re-set doorway in north aisle. North aisle and west tower added late in C14 followed by south aisle early in C15 and then the clerestory. East and south walls of chancel rebuilt in 1855. Vestry built in 1898. Chancel east window of three lights and tracery. Two south windows each of one light and tracery. In north wall, which is covered by the vestry, are two small C12 blocked windows. Steeply pitched plain tile nave roof. North aisle has a modern east window of two lights and tracery. In north wall are three late-Cl4 windows, each of two-trefoil lights and tracery in a square head, and a re-set walled-up C12 doorway. The west window is of two lights under a square head. Two large modern raking buttresses between windows in north wall. Low pitched lead roof. South aisle has modern east window of two lights under square head. Three south windows, easternmost is of two cinque-foiled lights under a square head, the other two are of two-trefoiled lights with foiled spandrels under square heads. West window is of two plain square-headed lights. Modern pointed south doorway of two chamfered orders and hood mould. Pitched plain tile roof. Clerestory has three windows on north side and four on south, each of two-trefoiled ogee headed lights and foiled spandrels in a square head. Plain parapet. Gabled C18 south porch with three-centred entrance archway. West tower of three storeys. Restored embattled parapets. Diagonal buttresses at angles. West window of three cinque-foiled lights and restored tracery in a two-centred head. Below is cut a modern doorway. Bell chamber

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.