Aylton Parish Church

Aylton Parish Church is a Grade II* Church of England church in Aylton, Herefordshire, in the Diocese of Hereford: a small twelfth-century nave and fourteenth-century chancel whose medieval dedication is unknown.

Overview

Historic England lists Aylton Parish Church (list entry 1099070, designated 6 March 1967). The listing records a twelfth-century parish church with later alterations, restored in 1928, in sandstone rubble in large squared blocks with sandstone dressings, a rendered west gable, two brick buttresses to the west end, a brick and timber porch, and plain tiled roofs. The plan is a continuous small three-bay nave and two-bay chancel with a south porch. A square, probably seventeenth-century, rendered bell-turret with a pyramidal roof stands over the west end of the nave. The nave has a minute twelfth-century round-headed window in the north wall. The chancel has a fourteenth-century two-light east window with ogee heads.

The Royal Commission noted that the dedication is unknown, that the nave was built probably early in the twelfth century with unusually thick side walls, that the chancel (except perhaps the north wall) was rebuilt in the fourteenth century, and that the south porch was built in 1654 and later reconstructed. The listing describes a timber screen of three bays with traceried spandrels. Local accounts note two bells, the larger of about 1639 and the smaller possibly twelfth-century. Patronage of the living now rests with the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1099070
• RCHME Herefordshire: Aylton
• British Listed Buildings: Aylton Parish Church