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Holy Cross, Morton Morrel, Warwickshire

Location
(52°11′55″N, 1°32′52″W)
Morton Morrel
SP 310 557
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Warwickshire
now Warwickshire
medieval Worcester
now Coventry
  • Harry Sunley

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Feature Sets
Description

The church consists of a simple nave and chancel, the chancel possibly 17thc. The nave windows and upper part of the tower are Georgian. The N doorway is Perpendicular. There is a reset plain window in the N wall of the tower that could be 12thc. (Pevsner) and two loose fragments in the nave bear Romanesque carving.

History

A priest is mentioned in DS. The vill and church were divided between the Earls of Warwick and Leicester in 1291.

Features

Loose Sculpture

Comments/Opinions

On the tympanum the saltire crosses are undoubtedly Romanesque (vide Offchurch, Avon Dasset etc.). The cross may have been added later for re-use as a headstone. On the other hand the entire arrangement may be original carving ofc.1100.

Bibliography
VCH 5:120
Pevsner and Wedgewood, 357