St Catherine's Church, Hoarwithy

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St Catherine's Church, Hoarwithy
Church of St Catherine, Hoarwithy
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St Catherine's Church, Hoarwithy
Location in Herefordshire
51°57′41″N2°39′45″W / 51.9613°N 2.6625°W / 51.9613; -2.6625
Location Hoarwithy, Herefordshire
CountryEngland
Denomination Anglican
Website www.stw.org.uk
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade I
Designated26 March 1987
Architect(s) John Pollard Seddon
Architectural type Church
Groundbreaking c.1870
Completed1901
Administration
Diocese Diocese of Hereford
Parish Hentland
Clergy
Vicar(s) Revd Elizabeth Davies
Assistant priest(s) Revd Frances Phillips

The Church of St Catherine is a Church of England parish church at Hoarwithy in the English county of Herefordshire. Alan Brooks and Nikolaus Pevsner, in the revised 2012 Herefordshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of England series, describe it as "the most impressive Victorian church in the county. [1] Designed in an Italian Romanesque style by the architect John Pollard Seddon for the Revd William Poole, vicar of Hentland with Hoarwithy, [1] it is a Grade I listed building. [2]

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History

The original chapel on the site dated from the 1840s. [1] Poole considered it, "an ugly brick building with no pretensions to any style of architecture." [3] Coming into his inheritance in 1870, he commissioned Seddon to undertake a total rebuilding. [3] The building history is "unclear"; [1] designs were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874, and the main building period appears to have completed between 1878 and 1879, [1] although English Heritage records much work as post-dating 1885. [2] Brooks and Pevsner consider that this may relate "largely to the internal decoration." [1] Work has continued into the 21st century with the addition of the "Dubricius" polyptych [4] by the artist Edward Kelly, [1] and the restoration of the organ. [5]

Description

The church has an "imposing campanile" of four storeys, with the ground floor surrounded by an open arcade. [1] The church is constructed from local Red sandstone, which encases the brick structure of 1840. A north porch is linked to the arcades of the campanile by a loggia. [2] Historic England describes the design of the church as "eclectic Rundbogenstil [with] Byzantine, French, Venetian, Lombardic, Tuscan and Sicilian Romanesque influences." [2] Simon Jenkins considers the church; "a complete work of revivalist art, rare for its date, an astonishing creation." [6]

The churchyard contains five war graves, three British Army soldiers and a Royal Navy seaman of World War I and a Royal Naval Reserve officer of World War II. [7]

Parish status

The church is in a joint benefice, St Weonards, with six other churches: [8]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Brooks & Pevsner 2012, pp. 363–364.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Historic England. "Church of St Catherine (Grade I) (1214570)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 15 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 "The Parish Churches of Hentland and Hoarwithy". Hentlandandhoarwithy.co.uk. 23 February 1904. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  4. ↑ "Paintings". Edward Kelly. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  5. ↑ "News". St Weonards group website. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  6. ↑ Jenkins 1999, pp. 269–70.
  7. ↑ "Hoarwithy Churchyard". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "St Weonards Benefice". Diocese of Hereford . Retrieved 22 October 2023.

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