East wall: ‘Crucifixion of Christ’
The church of St Edward was designed in the Arts and Crafts style of the late 19th and early 20th generations. Originally designed as a ‘chapel of ease’, it was focused in 1903 but not consecrated until 1934 nor registered for weddings until eventually 1943. It lastly became the parish church for Kempley in 1975 with the formal closure of the close by 12th century church of St Mary’s. The church was extensively renovated in 2014.
The style of the church is unusual for the reason that it has no east window at the rear of the altar. The 7th Earl Beauchamp gave his architect, Randall Wells, a no cost hand with the design and style but wanted an external stone relief on the east finish of the church as a roadside shrine for passers-by. It is designed in community red sandstone, and the church and lychgate were at first roofed with local stone tiles, but the church was subsequently re-roofed with pantiles. Timbers for the assistance beams, rafters and other woodwork arrived from community oaks on the Earl’s estates.
Nearby men constructed the church less than the supervision of a local carpenter, Walter James. The community blacksmith, George Smallman, designed all the nails, hinges and other ironwork. The church is a ongoing single nave and chancel with a superior-pitched roof held on heavy scissor-beam roof-trusses, with grapevine trails painted on the rood beam. On the north side of the nave is the Lady Chapel, a vestry and a bell tower with a saddleback roof and a porch underneath. The large west window has a diagonal stone grid, usually referred to as a ‘jam tart’ window. The leaded lights for the window have been created by W Smith of London working with Previous Dutch glass held in a wrought iron casement in just the stone grid.
The lychgate has a gabled roof with a very low deep arch the wedge shaped stones higher than the arch are set as ‘voussoirs’, with a central keystone that distributes the weight to the supports on both side of the arch.
There are three sculpted stone relief styles drawn by Randall Wells, two of which were being carved by Walter James. Superior on the east wall facing the road and serving as the Earl’s ‘roadside shrine’, is the ‘Crucifixion of Christ’. Higher than the entrance porch of the church is ‘Christ the Peacemaker’. Within the porch over the primary doorway into the church is ‘Virgin and Child’ by Laurence Turner.
Within the church the carved rood beam carries the figure of ‘Christ Triumphant’ on the cross. The carving of Christ was accomplished by David Gibb, the past remaining carver of ship’s figureheads in London. To the sides of the crucifixion are the Virgin Mary and St John.
The altar, candle holders and lectern arrived from the Daneway workshop in Gloucestershire they were intended by Ernest Gimson and Ernest Barnsley and created in oak by Peter van der Waals. The candelabra were created by Charles Robert Ashbee and the pews by the Gloucester Woodworking Co. The stone font was intended by Gimson but its maker is not known.
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