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Garway Church of St Michael
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Garaway
In the civil parish of Garway.
In the historic county of Herefordshire (Modern Authority of Herefordshire, 1974 county of Hereford and Worcester).
Belonged to Knights Templar, in 1308 passed to the Hospitallers. Church chiefly of Norman architecture and has more or less detached belfry. Tower built in unusual position, the absence of any bonding stones proves that the tower was once wholly detached. Tower 70' high & about 33' square prob built end of C12. Tower has slightly battered base, two stages with roll-moulding dividing the lower stage from the slightly recessed upper stage and a pyramidal roof; north-west side has a single ground floor lancet, a blocked lancet in the lower centre of the upper stage and two round-headed openings beneath the roof, the last features recurring on the other three sides; buttress containing newel with small loop lights projects from east corner towards north-west; south- east side has small moulded lancet to first stage which is blocked in its lower half. The massive square tower, with it's single ground floor lancet, is clearly capable of defence.
This site has been described as a;
Fortified Ecclesiastical site.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 155157)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SO455224
PastScape number;
107702
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 1064
- Web site links
- Books
- Harrison, Peter, 2004, Castles of God (Woodbridge; Boydell Press) p85
Pevsner, N., 1963, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire
RCHME, 1931, An inventory of the historical monuments in Herefordshire. Vol1: south-west p69-72
Seaton, 1903, History of Deanery of Archenfield p32
Rees, W., 1947, Order of St John of Jerus in Wales p51
Knowles, David and Hadcock, R Neville, 1971, Medieval religious houses in England and Wales (Longman) p236, 243
Chalkley Gould, 1908, in Page, Wm (ed), VCH Hereford Vol1 p69-72
Robinson, Rev C J, 1872, A History of the Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire
- Journal Articles
- 1942 'Garway' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club Vol21 p137
Marshall, G, 1927, 'The Church of the Knights Templar, Garway' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club p86
Watkins, A., 1920 'Garway Church' Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club p206
Severn Walker, J., 1869, 'Detached church belfries, Herefordshire' ASR Vol10 p295
Webb J., 1846, Archaeologia Vol31 p190
- Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Williams, R., 00/09/1998, St Michael's Church, Garway, Herefordshire. An archaeological survey
contractor report
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