Church of St Ethelbert

Heritage listing

Details TANNINGTON TM 26 NW 5/63 Church of St Ethelbert 29.7.55 - I Parish church. Medieval, the chancel restored 1879. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north vestry. Flint rubble with stone dressings; the nave and side walls of the porch are plastered. Continuous plaintiled roof. Square turret to south. The plinth of the tower has a chequer pattern in flushwork. Moulded west doorway, considerably renewed; original hoodmould with much-weathered carved spandrels. The west window has plain C19 or C20 infilling although the original opening is intact. 2-light belfry openings. Core of nave probably late C12. The north doorway is of this date: one order of colonnettes with crocket capitals and semi-circular arch with hollow and keel moulding. Various C14 and C15 windows. 2 of the C14 windows are largely original; internally one has shafting and a hoodmould with mutilated stops, the other has a moulded surround. C15 moulded south nave doorway. C15 porch with flushwork panelling to the facade and an embattled parapet. Moulded entrance arch with rose-carved spandrels. Over the entrance is an empty trefoil-headed ogee niche flanked by demi buttress-shafts. Original roof (restored). Early C14 chancel: a good 5-light east window with intersecting tracery. Side windows and Priest's doorway in Perpendicular style, all much renewed Interior. No chancel arch. Coupled rafter nave roof of medieval date, with a pair of straight braces to each collar and ashlar pieces. At the east end a section of the roof is panelled as a canopy of honour, with moulded ribs and fleuron bosses. The panels contain traces of 'IHS' and rose motifs, some overpainted in a restoration of 1967. 4-bay chancel roof: C15 trusses with long arched braces to the collars; rafters renewed 1879. Altered C14 angle

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.