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This is the Guild Chapel in Stratford. To the right is the Old Grammar School.

It is on the corner of Church Stret and Chapel Lane.

Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross. Grade I listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-366198-guild-chapel-of-the-holy-cross-stratford" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Guild Chapel of the Holy Cross, Stratford-upon-Avon</a>

   STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
   SP2054NW CHURCH STREET
   604-1/10/49 (East side)
   25/10/51 Guild Chapel of The Holy Cross
   GV I
   Formerly known as: Guildhall (part) CHURCH STREET.
   Guild chapel. C13 chancel with alterations of c1450; nave and
   tower c1490ff; restored 1804, roofs rebuilt; restored and
   refurnished 1950s by S Dykes-Bower. For Guild of the Holy
   Cross; late C15 work paid for by Sir Hugh Clopton. Sandstone
   squared dressed stone and ashlar; parapeted roofs.
   PLAN: 2-bay chancel and 4-bay nave with west tower and north
   porch. Perpendicular style.
   EXTERIOR: chancel has plain plinth, diagonal buttresses and
   top cornice and coped parapet. East window of 5 cusped lights
   under 4-centred head; similar 2-light north and south windows;
   pointed south entrance with door with pierced scutcheon plate.
   Nave has deep plinth, offset buttresses and diagonal
   buttresses, top cornice and crenellated parapet with crocketed
   pinnacles; 4-light transomed windows with Perpendicular
   tracery.
   Gabled porch has diagonal buttresses, cornice with gargoyles,
   and crenellated parapet to gable and returns. Entrance has
   4-centred head and continuous moulding, ogival hood with
   tracery panel, crockets, and fleuron forming plinth to niche
   with nodding ogee head, flanking square panels with label
   moulds and angels with shields, battened door with
   leaf-pattern handle and scutcheon plates; return blind 4-light
   square-headed windows with labels; inner entrance with
   4-centred head and enriched spandrels, C20 paired doors.
   Similar south door.
   Tower has diagonal buttresses, string courses and cornice and
   crenellated parapet with pinnacles; west door with 4-centred
   head, spandrels and label mould, C15 battened door with
   tracery; tall 3-light transomed west window with Perpendicular
   tracery and hood; 2-light louvred bell openings; clock face to
   north side with shield in panel above (Clopton arms); cusped
   light to south side. Some C18 rainwater heads.
   INTERIOR: C19 plaster ceilings with cornices; flagged floors.
   Chancel arch has rich mouldings, top to chancel cut by
   ceiling; nave has panels between windows with cusped and
   crocketed heads; tall tower arch; north and south doors to
   west end have hoods with crockets and finials and stops; south
   door has one remaining angel stop and old door, north door has
   square stops.
   FITTINGS: chancel has fielded-panelled wainscotting and
   similar stalls, low reredos with panelled pilasters and
   festoons of oak and olive with drapery; C18 altar rail has
   panelled posts and spiral balusters. Nave has late C20
   fielded-panelled panelling and stalls with candlestick style
   light fittings; paired 3-fielded-panel doors and organ loft to
   tower arch; coved ceiling.
   MEMORIALS: chancel south wall tablet to Sir Hugh Clopton,
   d.1496, erected 1708, tall nowy-headed panel with armorial
   bearing over long inscription recording benefactions, concave
   lower angles.
   STAINED GLASS: chancel windows have C20 windows with figures
   of notable people in the history of Stratford; lion passant
   maker's mark.
   WALL PAINTINGS: important late C15 wall paintings, notably a
   Doom over the chancel arch; of a series of saints to the
   panels between windows, 3 remain but damaged; some painting
   exposed to west wall, but this and paintings to north and
   south walls are covered by panelling and include a Dance of
   Death.
   Used by King Edward VI Grammar School since 1553, when the
   Guild was dissolved.
   (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-:
   414; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of
   Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-:
   60-2; Transactions of the Birmingham Archaeological Society
   (reprint): Puddephat W: The Mural Paintings of the Dance of
   Death in the Guild Chapel: Oxford: 1960-; Puddephat W: The
   Guild Chapel & Other Guild Buildings of Stratford-upon-Avon:
   Stratford-upon-Avon: 1987-).


Listing NGR: SP2007654738
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Source The Guild Chapel - Stratford Upon Avon
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 11′ 25.76″ N, 1° 42′ 29.02″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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