St Mary's Church, Hopesay

Coordinates: 52°26′39″N 2°54′00″W / 52.4441°N 2.8999°W / 52.4441; -2.8999
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St Mary's Church, Hopesay
Style
Norman, Gothic
Specifications
MaterialsLimestone, tile roofs
Administration
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseHereford
ArchdeaconryLudlow
DeaneryClun Forest
ParishHopesay
Clergy
Vicar(s)Revd Canon Paul G. Wignall

St Mary's Church is in the village of

Anglican parish church in the deanery of Clun Forest, the archdeaconry of Ludlow, and the diocese of Hereford.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[2]

History

St Mary's was built in about 1200.[3] There were later additions and alterations, including adding the double-pyramidal roof to the tower in the 17th century.[2] The chancel was restored by William Butterfield in 1886.[3]

Architecture

Exterior

The church is constructed in

Decorated tracery. The south porch has stone side walls, an entrance arch in timber, and wrought iron gates. The doorway to the church dates from the 12th century, and is round-headed with a plain tympanum. Its left capital is decorated with leaves, and the right capital with scallops. The south wall of the chancel contains two lancets, a two-light window, and a round-headed priest's door. The east window in the chancel has three lights, and in the north wall are two round-headed lancets. The organ chamber also has lancet windows.[2]

Interior

Interior of Hopesay church c.1910s

Inside the church is a west gallery carried on

Nicholson.[4] The church contains parochial war memorials in the form of plaques listing the local dead of both World Wars.[5]

Churchyard

The churchyard contains two

Second World War Commonwealth war graves of a soldier of the Royal Army Service Corps and the ATS.[6] The writer and adventurer Vivienne de Watteville (Vivienne Goschen) is also buried in the churchyard.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Hopesay: St Mary, Hopesay, Church of England, retrieved 23 November 2013
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Historic England, "Church of St Mary, Hopesay (1054961)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 23 November 2013
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  4. , retrieved 30 June 2020
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  6. ^ [1] CWGC casualty record, Hopesay (St Mary's) Churchyard, accessed 13 June 2021.
  7. ^ Perrin, Jim, Shipton and Tilman (London, 2013), p.115

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