St Cosmas & St Damian, Stretford
St Cosmas & St Damian, Stretford
The Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian stands in a farmyard at Stretford, north-west Herefordshire (not the Greater Manchester town), a Grade I redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
- Location
- Stretford, Herefordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Herefordshire
- City / town
- Stretford
- Address
- Stretford, Herefordshire, HR6 9DG
- Postcode
- HR6 9DG
- Built
- C12, extended C13, partly rebuilt C14; restored 1875 and 1922
- Denomination
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Dedication
- Cosmas and Damian
- Diocese
- Hereford
- Parish
- Stretford (redundant; Churches Conservation Trust)
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Medieval twin-nave church
- Materials
- Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; machine-tile roof; shingled bell-cote
- Grid reference
- SO 443 557
- Opening hours
- Open daily.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England records a former parish church of the twelfth century, extended in the thirteenth, partly rebuilt in the fourteenth and restored in 1875 and 1922, of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings under a machine-tile roof, with a shingled west bell-cote and small broach spire. Two naves and two chancels share one roof, with a fifteenth-century timber south porch. The north nave retains a blocked twelfth-century doorway; the south is thirteenth century. Early fourteenth-century effigies of a knight and his wife lie in a north-wall tomb recess. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture notes a Romanesque font and that the church was declared redundant on 1 December 1972 and vested in the Redundant Churches Fund (now the Churches Conservation Trust) in 1974. Listed Grade I on 2 September 1966 (NHLE 1349846). The dedication is to the physician-saints Cosmas and Damian. The former parish lies in the Diocese of Hereford, civil parish of Monkland and Stretford.