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All Saints, Chadshunt, Warwickshire

Location
(52°10′26″N, 1°29′22″W)
Chadshunt
SP 350 530
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Warwickshire
now Warwickshire
medieval Worcester
now Coventry
  • Harry Sunley

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Description

This redundant church has a simple, 17thc. W tower, and a Georgian chancel and N chapel. The nave is 12thc. with later windows. 12thc. sculpture is found on the N and S doorways and the font

History

In the 12thc. the church was supported by the precentor of Lichfield Cathedral, by 1290 becoming a chapel of Bishop's Itchington, and continuing as such until 1879. The church was redesigned in 1852, and was declared redundant in 1988.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Furnishings

Fonts

Comments/Opinions

The two plain doorways with their heavy mouldings and simple capitals probably beloing to the first half of the 12thc. The pointed arch of the S doorway may result from rebuilding - there is a good deal of disturbed masonry in the surrounding walls.

The font clearly belongs to the 13thc. (dogtooth, multiple moulded plinth) but is included as a late example of a common form of 12thc. arcaded decoration. (Ed.)

Bibliography

VCH 5

Pevsner and Wedgewood, 206