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  • 1. St Peter, Bromyard, Herefordshire, England
    Exterior from NW (Image courtesy of Conway Library, Photo R. Morris).
    Originally Minster, now parish church
    The building is cruciform, with a chancel, nave, transepts and a crossing tower; this last added in the 14thc. The church is essentially late Romanesque but much altered and restored in later times. The S aisle is an addition of c.1190 and the N aisle is early 13thc. The chancel was entirely rebuilt in the 14thc. The three Romanesque doorways predate these alterations and were re-set into the aisles and chancel. Duncumb (1812, 89) states that the fabric was 'completely repaired' in 1806. Williams (1987, pl. 2) illustrates an important 18thc. print showing the church from the SW but does not reveal its source. The font bowl predates the present church.
  • 2. SS Mary and David, Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England
    Exterior from E.
    Parish church
    Kilpeck church is a three-cell building consisting of nave, chancel and rib-vaulted apse, all dating from the 12thc. At the west end of the nave is a wooden gallery including material dating from the 16thc. to the 19thc. There is no record to show when it was erected. The church is constructed of old red sandstone blocks; irregular in size and shape in the nave and chancel but of regularly coursed squared ashlar in the apse, which was refurbished by Cottingham in 1846 at the same time as its roofline was lowered. The walls are supported by flat, slender pilaster buttresses of ashlar, dividing the nave into three bays, the chancel into two, and the apse into one straight bay and three curved ones. There is no pilaster buttress at the NE angle of the nave, although traces of one remain at the top of the wall. Below, the angle is of long and short quoins and the nave wall to the N of the angle is of masonry different to that of the rest of the nave wall, sloping inwards so that it dies into the wall just below the level of the original nave window sills. This section of wall is on a slightly different line to the rest of the nave wall. Its interpretation, as a vestige of an earlier church on the site or as a later rebuilding, is discussed in section VIII. Over the west gable of the nave is a gabled double bell-cote; also part of the 1846 restoration.
  • 3. St John the Baptist, Weston Beggard, Herefordshire, England
    St John the Baptist, Weston Beggard. Groundplan created by T. Nicholson, 1881. Image courtesy of Church Plans Online (Published by the NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium).
    Parish church
    Weston Beggard is five miles E of the centre of Hereford, on rising ground on the N side of the river Frome. There is little of the village except the church, a few nearby houses and scattered farms at a distance. The land is wooded and hilly, with arable, pasture, orchard and hop cultivation. The church consists of a nave, chancel and W tower. Nave and chancel are narrow, and the nave has a S doorway of the late 12thc., and a chancel arch with features of a similar date. The chancel (including two wall tombs), S porch and W tower are all early 14thc., and most of the nave and chancel windows are stylistically of this date, but replaced in the 19thc. There was a restoration in 1825-27 when a gallery was added, and another by T. Nicholson of Hereford in 1880-81, when the S nave wall was rebuilt and many windows were replaced.
  • 4. St John the Baptist, Yarkhill, Herefordshire, England
    St. John the Baptist, Yarkhill. Groundplan created by Charles Ainslie and Thomas Blashill, 1863. Image courtesy of Church Plans Online (Published by the NOF Digitise Architecture England Consortium).
    Parish church
    Yarkhill is 6 miles E of the centre of Hereford, and lies on the river Frome. The compact little village is on rising ground on the N bank of the river, among woodland and pasture. The church is on the eastern edge of the village centre, and to the S, by the river, is a moated site. St John’s is a stone church with nave, chancel and W tower. The S nave doorway is of c.1200, and the tower arch and the lower storey of the tower are of a similar date. The upper storey of the tower 15thc., probably of 1466, and has a battlemented parapet and a modern tiled pyramid roof. In a major restoration of 1862 by C. R. Ainslie and T. Blashill of London, the church was practically rebuilt except for the tower and the chancel walls, and a S porch and N chancel vestry added. The church possesses three fonts: a 12thc. one with a scalloped bowl; a 13thc. one, and a 17thc. one with a fluted bowl. It also contains two small mortars of uncertain date, probably post-Medieval. The S doorway, tower arch and the oldest font are described here.