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St Andrew, Eastleach Turville, Gloucestershire

Location
(51°44′48″N, 1°42′31″W)
Eastleach Turville
SP 20203 05354
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Gloucestershire
now Gloucestershire
medieval Worcester
now Gloucester
medieval St Andrew
now St Andrew
  • Jean and Garry Gardiner
  • Jean and Garry Gardiner
  • John Wand
10 Jun 1998

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Description

The churches of St Andrew, Eastleach Turville, and St Michael, Eastleach Martin, lie on opposite sides of the River Leach in the small Cotswold village of Eastleach. The church of St Andrew is of limestone rubble, with ashlar dressings, and has a chancel, nave with N transept and S porch, and W tower. Carved 12thc. work is found on a blocked arch on the N side of the chancel, on the chancel arch and on the S nave doorway.

History

Domesday Book records that Eastleach Turville (known as Lecce) was held by William Devereux as tenant under Roger de Lacey. A church existed before 1114, when Henry I confirmed an earlier grant to Tewkesbury Abbey (VCH, vol. 7).

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Other

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches
Comments/Opinions

In the opinion of this fieldworker, the chancel arch jambs are late Romanesque with a later steeply pointed arch inserted when the chancel was enlarged. The trumpet capital of the inner order of the blocked arch in the external N wall of the chancel corresponds to those in Bibury N arcade, with no necking and a multi-petalled rosette in the circles.

Bibliography

'Eastleach', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 44, 1922, 52-53.

Historic England List No. 1089225.

C. E. Keyser, Norman Tympana and Lintels in the Churches of Great Britain, London, 1927, lxvii.

M. Salter, The Old Parish Churches of Gloucestershire, Malvern, 2008, 67.

David Verey, The Buildings of England, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, Harmondsworth, 1970, 233-234.

Victoria County History, A History of the County of Gloucester, vol. 7, ed. N. M. Herbert, Oxford, 1981 (British History Online, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol7, accessed 25 January 2017).

W. H. T. Wright, 'Notes on Eastleach Martin and Eastleach Turville', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 22, 1899, 115-120.

W. H. T. Wright, Some Notes on the Parishes and Churches of Eastleach Martin, Eastleach Turville and Southrop, Private Press, 1923.