Holy Rood, Daglingworth
Holy Rood, Daglingworth
Holy Rood is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, in the Diocese of Gloucester and the Ermin West Benefice. It is an Anglo-Saxon church still in weekly use.
- Location
- Daglingworth, Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Gloucestershire
- City / town
- Daglingworth
- Address
- Church Lane, Daglingworth, Gloucestershire, GL7 7AG
- Postcode
- GL7 7AG
- Built
- 11th century; tower and porch 15th century; restored 1845–50
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Holy Rood
- Diocese
- Gloucester
- Parish
- Daglingworth Holy Rood
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Anglo-Saxon with Perpendicular tower
- Materials
- Limestone rubble with dressed quoins; chancel, aisle and vestry of coursed squared limestone; ashlar tower; stone slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SO 993 049
- Opening hours
- All day, every day.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records an eleventh- and fifteenth-century church, heavily restored in 1845–50. The nave has long-and-short quoins rebated to resemble pilasters. A narrow eleventh-century south doorway with cable-decorated imposts sits inside the porch, with an eleventh-century mass dial above and a fifteenth-century studded door. The two-stage west tower and gabled south porch are fifteenth-century. The chancel, north aisle and vestry are of 1845–50; the chancel reuses Anglo-Saxon long-and-short work at the east end. A Roman votive stone, reused in the eleventh or twelfth century as a two-light window, is reset in the vestry.
Four eleventh-century carved slabs in the Syrian tradition, formerly built into the chancel arch, were found in 1850 and reset in the nave and north aisle: two Crucifixions, St Peter, and Christ enthroned. A twelfth-century altar with cushion-capital shafts, found when a priest’s chamber was removed, is reset in the chancel. The fifteenth-century octagonal font includes quatrefoil and Tudor-rose decoration. CRSBI dates the sculpture to the late tenth or early eleventh century.