Church of St Mary | |
Denomination: | Church of England |
Diocese: | Gloucester |
Province: | Canterbury |
Heritage Designation: | Grade I listed building |
Designated Date: | 25 August 1960 |
Pushpin Map: | Gloucestershire |
Benefice: | Stow on the Wold, Condicote & The Swells |
The Church of St Mary is an Anglican church in Upper Swell in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. It was built in the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building.[1]
The church was built in the 12th century and in the 13th the chancel was added.[1] During the 15th and early 16th centuries the nave was revised.[1]
The parish is part of the Stow on the Wold, Condicote and The Swells benefice within the Diocese of Gloucester.[2]
The Cotswold stone building has a stone slate roof. It consists of a three-bay nave and two-bay chancel with a south porch. The bellcote on the west gable has two bells.[1]
Inside the church is a 15th-century font and a piscina in the chancel.[1] There is a Norman doorway with a carved tympanum.[3] There is a mass dial on the jamb of the porch door.[3] The organ was built by Nicholson & Co Ltd in 1872.[4]