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St Gregory, Castlemorton, Worcestershire

Location
(52°2′1″N, 2°18′0″W)
Castlemorton
SO 795 373
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Worcestershire
now Worcestershire
medieval Worcester
now Worcester
  • G. L. Pearson

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Feature Sets
Description

Built of rubble masonry, the church has a 12thc. nave and chancel, and a later medieval S transept, W tower and timber N porch. Romanesque sculpture is found in the S and N doorways; at least the S doorway was reset in 1880.

History

Castlemorton formed part of the manor of Longdon, and is not mentioned by name in the Domesday Survey.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Comments/Opinions

Both doorways have been repaired and amended; the head at the apex of the S doorway is of uncertain date. The S doorway was probably the main entrance at one time. Frontal chevrons also appear at Earls Croome (Pevsner, 114), and there is an Agnus Dei on the tympanum of Preston-by-Ledbury in Gloucestershire (Stratford in Pevsner 1968, 114, fn.).

Bibliography
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Worcestershire,vol.IV, London 1924, 50-53.
C. J. Bond, 'Church and Parish in Norman Worcestershire' in J. Blair (ed.)Minsters and Parish Churches: The Local Church in Transition 950-1200. Oxford University Committee for Archaeology Monograph 17, Oxford 1988, 119-158, 150.
N.Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Worcestershire, Harmondsworth 1968, 46, 114-115.