Off to Stone, #Worcs. for #ArtsandCrafts #Cotswolds #churches, where the Commissioners Gothic church of 1831-2 replaced a medieval church destroyed by fire. Kemp replaced the E window in 1900 and its heraldic scheme was partially reused within the nave.
All images Tudor Barlow
Later nave glass of around 1960, by Francis Skeat, takes on a varied character - an attractive re-setting of ex-situ medieval and C17th fragments and a memorial to Peter Collins, racing driver & local lad, who died in an accident at an event in 1958. Note the chequer flag.
Typically in a church of the Commissioners' period, the interior is plain, but benefits from some attractive woodwork & furnishing installed in two episodes. Prothero & Phillott of Cheltenham enlarged the chancel 1899-1900, with reredos carved by Martyn's & pulpit by Haughton.
Pevsner attributes the carving of the "large square font" to William Forsyth, installed along with the chancel extension c1900. You can glimpse its fuzzy image here. It looks polygonal. He also credits Forsyth with the pews *and* the pulpit. The Martyn reredos he dates to 1923.
So we have a conflict of sources between Pevsner and Tim Bridges ('Churches of Worcestershire'). Bridges also states that the reredos figures are by Pancheri & Son, but I see no figures! Pevsner credits the font cover (no pic) & lectern to them,1959-72, Bridges adds the altar.
As Pevsner assigns "most other wood carving" to the Pancheri team, it seems likely that the simple but attractive ancillary installations are their work, or that of Robert Pancheri after his father's death in 1961 eg this board of incumbents, with its carving of the old church.
A small detail, a processional cross, looks like Pancheri work to me. What say you, @StroudStory ?
Moving into the churchyard, we find the stepped base of a late medieval cross, restored in 1919 with a wheeled cross head as a war memorial. You can just see it by the chancel. The Roll of Honour is sited by the west door. No artists' details for these.
Cross image: P L Chadwick
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