Offchurch

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "The well preserved arch and carvings of the Norman doorway in the North Wall of St Gregory's, [...] Inside the church this doorway has a Saxon style."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Stowell, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 19 March 2009 by David Stowell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1213175] [accessed 5 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Offchurch: St Gregory. [...] Parts of the church, including the chancel walls, are twelfth-century and the tower from the fifteenth century."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Sutton, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2014 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4135071] [accessed 5 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Offchurch: St Gregory - chancel and wonky arch. 'The chancel is Norman,' wrote Nikolaus Pevsner. 'The wonky chancel arch repeats the same motifs [the north door has - saltire crosses and stars], though the arch was rebuilt later ... The chancel was lengthened in the late C13 and then received the E (cusped intersecting tracery) and SE windows.' The glass is Victorian."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Sutton, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2014 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4135117] [accessed 5 February 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19704OFF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory
Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great
Church Location: Village Street / School Hill, Offchurch, Warwickshire, CV33 9AW
Country Name: England
Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km E of Leamington Spa
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Knighlow
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
No entry found for Offchurch in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The church was appropriated to Coventry Priory in 1260 [...] The nave dates from the early part of the 12th century [...] In 1866 the chancel was almost entirely rebuilt [...] The font is modern." The present font dates probably from the 19th-century re-building here. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Norman church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.288185, -1.476283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 17.47″ N, 1° 28′ 34.62″ W
UTM: 30U 603928 5794185

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-02-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.