St Cosmas and St Damian (now)
Redundant parish church
Streford is in NW Herefordshire, 4 miles SW of Leominster. Little remains of the village except for a farm with the church standing in the farmyard. The church was declared redundant in 1972, and has been in the cared of the Churches Conservation Trust since 1974. It is a small building of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and consists of two parallel naves with chancels sharing a gabled roof with a timber bell-turret over the W gable. The two naves and their chancels are separated by a 3-bay arcade, and timber traceried screens, perhaps 16thc, divide naves from chancels at pier 1. The N nave has 12thc features; a blocked doorway and a plain lancet, while the S belongs to the 13thc, as does the arcade. The construction of the arcade suggests that the two naves originally had separate roofs, and the present structure dates from the early 16thc. The chancels were lengthened in the 14thc. In addition to the N doorway there is a Romanesque font and the bowl of a pillar piscina is set in the S chancel. The church was restored in 1875 and again in 1922.