A person of the eleven round-headed windows that punctuate the west wall of the church, generally filled with glass whose maker is unidentified apart from curiously for this isolated piece at the apex which is plainly made to the design and style of Edward Burne Jones. This was the only panel not thoroughly releaded when I was portion of the staff restoring the west home windows of this church. I consider I nonetheless have a rubbing of the leadwork somewhere (so I could make a duplicate to the specific scale one of these days).
A surprise awaits the customer to Hoarwithy, for here is a church unlike any other in Herefordshire, or in the place for that subject. St Catherine’s asserts its existence with a bell tower that might seem much more at household in Tuscany than the rural Herefordshire countryside! The full church is developed in a lavish Italian-influenced Neo-Romanesque and appears to be like its finest when bathed in the daylight that most evokes the land that impressed it.
The existing church is the end result of the rebuilding of an current chapel here in 1854 when William Poole was appointed vicar and J.P. Seddon subsequently appointed architect. Seddon’s church is a remarkable eyesight total with an apsed chancel and towering bell-tower and most unforgettable of all a coated ‘cloister’ colonnade wrapping itself around the south and west faces of the constructing to information the visitor to the west entrance. There is a delight in depth below with carved capitals and mosaic floors that exhibit no expenditure was spared on this undertaking.
Inside the church the main nave is a large corridor less than an open up picket roof, (considerably of this part becoming a remodeling of the former chapel) although outside of the chancel is separated by a few rounded arches with the mosaic-topped apse beyond which is the most sumptuously adorned part of the building with intricate capitals and carved woodwork. There is some putting glass far too, in fact my initially at any time pay a visit to below was back again in 2000 as part of the staff releading the windows in the west wall (subsequently this more latest stop by was the to start with time I would at any time witnessed the church cost-free of scaffolding!).
Hoarwithy church is a genuine gem, a delightful and very little identified oddity properly well worth trying to get out. It is commonly stored open and welcoming for people to love, and on this celebration community artists had been exhibiting below (somewhat good they were also, I was tempted so a great deal I acquired a couple of prints). For far more on the church see down below:-
www.visitherefordshirechurches.co.uk/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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