Church of St David

Heritage listing

Details SO 43 SE; 6/81 MUCH DEWCHURCH CP Church of St David 26.01.67 GV I Parish church. C12, C13 and C14, with late C19 additions. Restored 1877. Sandstone rubble, squared sandstone, tufa and sandstone dressings. Stone slate and tiled roofs. West tower, three-bay nave, two-bay chancel, north nave aisle, south porch, vestry and organ chamber. Tower has two stages, hipped tiled roof with one gabled louvred dormer to each side and weather- cock to ridge. Bottom stage has battered plinth with roll moulding. First stage has lancet to south wall and west window with three restored trefoil- headed lights, deeply moulded 2-centred head and label with eroded head stops. Upper stage has central lancet to each face, except the last, just above the string dividing the two stages. Above each of these lancets is a 2-centred relieving arch. Clock above west lancet. Weathered buttress to south-east corner. North aisle is late C19. West window has two cinquefoiled lights and tracery under 2-centred head. The north wall has a trefoil-headed lancet to the right and two windows each of two trefoil-headed lights with quatre- foil tracery, one to centre and one to left. Roof is catslide from nave. Vestry and organ chamber has north gable with end stack. On the east side are three juxtaposed trefoil-headed lancets and a square-headed doorway. Chancel has diagonal corner buttresses and gable cross. Circa 1400 east window of three cinquefoil-headed lights with moulded labels, head stops and 2-centred head. In the tracery are quatrefoiled and trefoiled lights. Two matching wall monuments to sides of the window for Dorothy Hassall and Rev William Hassall died 1844 and 1849 respectively, have corbelled arches and cinquefoiled design. South side has chamfered priest's door with 2-centred head betw

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.