A surprise awaits the visitor to Hoarwithy, for right here is a church unlike any other in Herefordshire, or in the state for that matter. St Catherine’s asserts its presence with a bell tower that may well seem to be more at residence in Tuscany than the rural Herefordshire countryside! The overall church is created in a lavish Italian-impressed Neo-Romanesque and appears to be like its ideal when bathed in the sunlight that most evokes the land that encouraged it.
The present church is the final result of the rebuilding of an present chapel listed here in 1854 when William Poole was appointed vicar and J.P. Seddon subsequently appointed architect. Seddon’s church is a exceptional eyesight finish with an apsed chancel and towering bell-tower and most memorable of all a lined ‘cloister’ colonnade wrapping itself all around the south and west faces of the developing to information the customer to the west entrance. There is a delight in detail here with carved capitals and mosaic flooring that show no expenditure was spared on this venture.
Inside the church the major nave is a massive corridor underneath an open up wood roof, (a great deal of this component remaining a reworking of the previous chapel) although past the chancel is separated by three rounded arches with the mosaic-topped apse over and above which is the most sumptuously adorned component of the creating with intricate capitals and carved woodwork. There is some placing glass way too, in point my very first at any time pay a visit to right here was back in 2000 as aspect of the team releading the windows in the west wall (subsequently this a lot more new stop by was the initially time I might at any time observed the church no cost of scaffolding!).
Hoarwithy church is a actual gem, a delightful and very little recognized oddity perfectly well worth looking for out. It is ordinarily saved open up and welcoming for visitors to appreciate, and on this situation local artists ended up exhibiting in this article (rather excellent they were too, I was tempted so a great deal I acquired a pair of prints). For much more on the church see below:-
www.visitherefordshirechurches.co.uk/st-catherines-hoarwi…
Posted by Aidan McRae Thomson on 2020-04-26 11:46:56
Tagged: , Hoarwithy , church , Herefordshire , Victorian
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