Pre electronic shot up near from the scaffold in the course of restoration in 2001.
1 of the eleven round-headed home windows that punctuate the west wall of the church, generally filled with glass whose maker is mysterious except curiously for this isolated piece at the apex which is plainly built to the style and design of Edward Burne Jones. This was the only panel not absolutely releaded when I was element of the team restoring the west home windows of this church. I believe I nonetheless have a rubbing of the leadwork somewhere (so I could make a copy to the actual scale just one of these days).
A shock awaits the customer to Hoarwithy, for listed here is a church not like any other in Herefordshire, or in the region for that issue. St Catherine’s asserts its presence with a bell tower that may possibly seem far more at home in Tuscany than the rural Herefordshire countryside! The entire church is intended in a lavish Italian-impressed Neo-Romanesque and appears its ideal when bathed in the daylight that most evokes the land that influenced it.
The present church is the end result of the rebuilding of an present chapel in this article in 1854 when William Poole was appointed vicar and J.P. Seddon subsequently appointed architect. Seddon’s church is a outstanding eyesight comprehensive with an apsed chancel and towering bell-tower and most memorable of all a lined ‘cloister’ colonnade wrapping itself around the south and west faces of the building to tutorial the customer to the west entrance. There is a delight in element right here with carved capitals and mosaic floors that present no price was spared on this job.
Within the church the most important nave is a massive corridor beneath an open up wood roof, (a great deal of this section getting a transforming of the earlier chapel) whilst past the chancel is divided by 3 rounded arches with the mosaic-topped apse beyond which is the most sumptuously adorned component of the constructing with intricate capitals and carved woodwork. There is some placing glass way too, in reality my initial ever stop by in this article was back again in 2000 as section of the team releading the home windows in the west wall (subsequently this additional current pay a visit to was the 1st time I might at any time observed the church free of charge of scaffolding!).
Hoarwithy church is a actual gem, a delightful and minor recognized oddity properly value looking for out. It is normally kept open and welcoming for guests to enjoy, and on this celebration community artists ended up exhibiting here (somewhat superior they had been way too, I was tempted so substantially I acquired a few of prints). For additional on the church see under:-
www.visitherefordshirechurches.co.united kingdom/st-catherines-hoarwi…
Posted by Aidan McRae Thomson on 2020-04-28 12:41:49
Tagged: , Hoarwithy , church , Herefordshire , stained glass , window , Edward Burne Jones , Pre Raphaelite
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