Selsley Church, King's Stanley

Heritage listing

Details SO 8203-8303 KING'S STANLEY SELSLEY WEST 14/48 Church of All Saints 28.6.60 GV I Parish church. 1862 by George Frederick Bodley for S.S. Marling. Limestone ashlar; stone slate roof, lead to tower roof. High Victorian, French gothic revival. Nave with north west tower, north aisle and north organ loft apsed chancel. Moulded pointed- arched west doorway in parapet-gabled west end, parapet linking with tower to left. Two 2-light pointed windows with plate tracery; circular window above with bold plate tracery and central cusped light. Irregularly arranged north nave wall has large gabled buttress with lancet recesses. Three 3-light nave windows and one chancel 2-light, all with geometric tracery. Large C14 style mortuary recess and railed enclosure is monument to Sir Samuel Stephens Marling, died 1883. Small triangular-headed panel within round-arched and cusped recess depicts scenes from Life of Christ. Plinth to nave becomes battered at east end; 5-sided apse, each facet with lancet window and circular light above both within round-arched recess. Lean-to north aisle roof, aisle having two 2-light pointed windows. Two-storey vestry and organ loft to east has parapet gables facing east and west, both disappearing into nave roof to south. Gable-mounted chimney at west end with triangular hood. High level pointed-arched organ loft doorway at east end approached up straight flight of stone steps projecting beyond north aisle wall with half-arch to underside spanning entrance to vestry below. Circular window with dogtooth border high in gable apex. Plate-traceried windows on north side of organ loft and vestry. Saddleback tower of 3 stages has large moulded and pointed-arched north doorway with two 2-light plate traceried windows over having sandstone colonnettes with

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.