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St Michael, Eastleach Martin, Gloucestershire

Location
(51°44′48″N, 1°42′31″W)
Eastleach Martin
SP 202 054
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Gloucestershire
now Gloucestershire
medieval Worcester
now Gloucester
  • Jean and Garry Gardiner
  • John Wand
12 June 1998

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Description

The church is of limestone rubble, partly rendered with ashlar dressings. The present nave, S and N doorways, and the chancel responds date from the 12thc. The chancel was rebuilt in the early 13thc and lengthened in the 14thc, when the transept, porch and tower were added. It is now cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust.

History

In Domesday Book Eastleach Martin is called 'Lece'. The church was granted c.1120 to Great Malvern priory, by Richard, son of Pons, who came to England with William the Conqueror. It was dedicated by the Bishop of Worcester to Saints Michael and Martin soon after Gloucester Abbey acquired the manor in 1144.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Exterior Decoration

Miscellaneous

Interior Features

Arches

Chancel arch/Apse arches
Comments/Opinions

The Votive or Dedication Cross is found in identical form within the central tower, S wall, at South Cerney. Another is shown on the replica font at Oldbury-on-Severn in the illustration in Fryer, following p.132.

Bibliography

Anon, The Church of St. Michael and St. Martin (Guidebook), 1996.

Sir Robert Atkyns the Younger. The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, London 1712, 422-23.

A. C. Fryer, 'Gloucestershire Fonts, Part 6', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 37 (1914), 107-33.

Historic Englnad Listing ID 1156545

Samuel Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire, Cirencester 1779, 432.

M. Salter, The Old Parish Churches of Gloucestershire Malvern 2008 66-67

D. Verey, The Buildings of England, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, Harmondsworth 1970, 221-222.

D. Verey and A. Brooks, The Buildings of England, Gloucestershire I: the Cotswolds (3rd edition) London1999 348-349

Victoria County History: A History of the County of Gloucester, Vol.7, Oxford 1981, 55-61.

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

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