Historic Churches in Warwickshire

A fabulous Gothic Revival church in a lovely Warwickshire village. St John's was built by Charles Buckeridge in 1869 as a replacement for the old medieval parish church. Buckeridge salvaged the east window of the medieval church, though he used it for the west window of his new building. In the window is glass depicting a bishop with his staff.
Avon Dassett, Warwickshire, England, CV47 2AH

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Heritage Highlight: 13th century tomb

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The first church here was dedicated to St James, but the current dedication is to St Michael. The church stands in a lovely wooded glade about 250 yards from the moated manor house at Baddesley Clinton.
Off Hay Wood Lane, Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire, England, B93 0DG

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Heritage Highlight: 16th century Ferrers table tomb

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St Lawrence's Church dates to the early 12th century but retains an early 11th-century carving from an earlier building. Highlights include 14th-century glass, a Tudor brass, and a peculiar Norman carving of a hare on the chancel arch.
Barton Road, Barton-on-the-Heath, Warwickshire, England, GL56 0PW

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Heritage Highlight: Early 11th-century Anglo-Danish carving

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All Saints Church, in the Warwickshire village of Billesley, is a small 11th-century church that was rebuilt in the Georgian period. The most intriguing historical features are a pair of 12th-century carvings in the vestry. The first is a stone cross with a carving of Christ holding hands with an unknown figure. This may have been part of a larger scene depicting the Harrowing of Hell.
Billesley, Warwickshire, England, B49 6NF

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Heritage Highlight: 12th-century carvings

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Though St Michael's Church, Brownsover, dates to the 12th century, the current building is almost entirely the result of a Victorian renovation executed by Sir George Gilbert Scott for the Boughton-Leigh family of Brownsover Hall.
Brownsover Lane, Brownsover, Warwickshire, England, CV21 1HY

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval woodwork

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All Saints Church, Chadshunt, dates to the 12th century. Only the eastern part of the nave now remains from that early church; the church was extended westward and upward over time. A clerestory was added to the nave in the 15th century, a west tower in the 17th century, and the current chancel dates to 1730.
Chadshunt, Warwickshire, England, CV35 0EH

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Cherington's impressive church dates to the 13th century. It holds a wonderful collection of medieval and later stained glass, much of it brought here from elsewhere by an 18th-century rector. Look for the ornately-carved 14th-century Franklin's Tomb, with the unique effigy of a freeborn landowner of a rank mentioned by Chaucer.
Church Lane, Cherington, Warwickshire, England, CV36 5HU

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Heritage Highlight: 13th-century Franklin's Tomb

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Originally a collegiate church founded in 1123 by Roger de Newburgh, the powerful second Earl of Warwick. St Mary's features superb Gothic architecture throughout, but the highlight is undoubtedly the fabulous Beauchamp Chapel, with ornate, gilded monuments to several Earls of Warwick and to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, a favourite of Elizabeth I.
Old Square, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, CV34 4RA

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One of the very few buildings designed by Capability Brown, this neo-classical Italianate chapel stands behind the mansion of Compton Verney House. The elegantly simple exterior hides an interior jammed with memorials to the Verney family, including an ornate alabaster tomb sculpted by Nicholas Stone for Richard and Margaret Verney in 1631.
Compton Verney House, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England, CV35 9HZ

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Heritage Highlight: 1631 tomb of Richard and Margaret Verney by Nicholas Stone

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A 14th-century church with several Norman features, facing Farnborough Hall. There are memorials to the Holbech family dating to the early 18th century, and a Norman tympanum over the south doorway.
Short Lane off Main Street, Farnborough, Warwickshire, England, OX17 1DZ

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Heritage Highlight: Holbech family memorials

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