Parish Church of St Swithun

Heritage listing

Details SY 08 NW WOODBURY CHURCH STILE LANE, Woodbury 2/84 Parish Church of St Swithun 30.6.61 - I Parish church. South transept and possibly part of south wall of nave and chancel C13; largely rebuilt and the tower erected 1407-9 (dedication 1409; Bishop Stafford's Register); north aisle built by the Haydon family, early C16. Extensively restored by the incumbant, Rev J L Fulford, especially 1849-52; roofs replaced and another general restoration 1893. Coursed dressed sandstone; dry slate roofs. West tower, nave, north aisle, south transept, north-east vestry and organ chamber (originally the Haydon chantry chapel), chancel, south porch. Exterior: west tower of 3 stages and plinth; string courses embrace set-back buttresses each with 3 off-sets; the off-sets have provision for statues which were never executed. Battlemented parapet with quatrefoil panel to each merlon; gargoyles; no pinnacles. 2-light belfry openings to each face, pointed with quatrefoil in head; 2nd stage, south, with two 2-light square-headed bell ringing chamber windows, one above the other, the upper one breaking the string course which forms the hood mould (cf the almost exactly contemporary tower at Lympstone Church, q.v.). 4-light west window, Perpendicular; west doorway, moulded surround with one order of vine-leaf trails, the hood mould formed by the plinth string course; door with studded rails could be C16. South side: west part of nave appears to be early (c.f. chancel; note masonry joint at extreme west). 3-light C19 Perpendicular window to either side of porch; south doorway with medieval moulded arch and hood mould; C18 fielded panel double gates with ramped spiked upper rail. C19 3-light Decorated transept south window and cusped east lancet; comparatively long chancel, with 2 C19 2-lig

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.