Hailes Church

Heritage listing

Details SP 03 SE 4/113 STANWAY, HAILES, Church (dedication unknown) (Formerly listed as Hailes Church) 4.7.60 GV I Parish church. C12, C14, C15, C17, restored C19, 1905 for H. Andrews (datestone). Random rubble, ashlar dressings, ashlar porch, timber-framed belfry, stone slate roof. Nave, chancel, south porch. South facade: trefoil-headed lancet on left; single-storey gabled porch, plinth, angled buttresses, wrought-iron gate in arched opening, datestone above, parapet gable. Inside boarded door in arched opening to nave. To right, trefoil-headed lancet. Parapet gables; square bellcote at west end, 3 louvred lights each face, pyramid roof; stone archway with gabled top for sanctus bell on east gable. Chancel same width as nave but slightly lower: lancet with cinquefoil head, trefoil over: bottom of opening blind. To right wide, ashlar buttress; boarded door under 3-centred arch, similar-width lancet over: pilaster buttress. Parapet gable, base of cross on apex. East end 3-light reticulated-tracery window, small quatrefoil over. North side, chancel 2 windows as left on south; lancet to nave, trefoil head, iron opening light; blocked doorway, trefoil head; roof as south. West wall paired lancets. Interior: medieval tiles and memorial slabs to floors, walls plastered. Nave: semi-circular responds to chancel arch, scalloped capitals, large roll to soffit pointed arch. Medieval chancel screen, 3 lights each side doorway, tracery heads, vine scroll on beam, short return on right against respond. Giant St Christopher painted on north wall, hunting scene on south. 3 1/2 bay roof, crown post trusses, post braced to tie beam and collar purlin, exposed collar rafters. Chancel: base of rood loft stair on left; trefoil-headed recess each side priest's door, double piscina cut back;

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.