Church of St Mary the Virgin, Forthampton

Heritage listing

Details SO 8532 FORTHAMPTON FORTHAMPTON VILLAGE 7/49 Church of St. Mary the Virgin 10.1.55 GV II* Anglican parish church. C13, restored 1788, north aisle added. 1847-48 by Hamilton and Medland of Gloucester, altered 1863-1866 by William Burges, chancel restored 1869 by J. Middleton of Cheltenham. Chancel; sandstone buttresses, north wall and east end blue lias, south wall coursed blue lias. Nave; coursed blue lias. Porch; coursed squared and dressed limestone. Tower; blue lias on north and south, sandstone on west, buttresses and stair-vice sandstone. Red tile and stone slate roof. Plan: nave with projecting south porch and north aisle, chancel with vestry/organ chamber on north, west tower. Diagonal buttress to chancel. Chancel south wall; early studded plank door within pointed flat-chamfered opening left. Single C19 light with cinquefoil head and moulded hood, right. C19 three-light east window with reticulated tracery moulded hood and head stops. Eroded monument on wall, lower left. Clamp and diagonal buttresses to north aisle; triangular east window with tracery and moulded hood with head stops. Two-light pointed C19 window below. Single light as in south wall of chancel towards east end. Five, 2-light pointed C19 windows with tracery. Three-light pointed C19 west window with tracery. Three-stage C13 tower with massive diagonal buttresses and projecting stair-vice with plank door in pointed flat-chamfered surround at north-east corner. Three-light Decorated west window with reticulated tracery, scroll moulded hood with eroded carved-head stops. Trefoil-headed single lights to second stage. Two-light pointed belfry windows with Decorated tracery, on each face of tower. Buttressed nave; two 2-light C19 windows with tracery either side of projecting porch. Four-light

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.