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St Mary's Church, Aston: Assessment of the East Face of the Tower |
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Albion Archaeology unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
A faculty was issued for works of repair to the Church of St Mary''s Aston subject to English Heritage requirements. English Heritage asked for an assessment of the significance of the east face of the tower in order to inform decisions about the extent and methods of repair. A visual inspection of the tower, and the presence of vertically-set rectangular stones within the fabric, had raised the possibility that remnants of earlier construction might be present. A series of medium format monochrome photographs was taken of the east face of the tower for the production of rectified, scale images. Additional colour photographs were taken of the east and the other faces of the tower. To aid interpretation, digital photographs were also taken. The masonry details on the tower suggest that it represents a single phase of construction. The string courses that define each stage of the tower are continued across the junction of the masonry with the buttresses. Elements of the masonry, found at the angles between the tower and buttresses, straddle that junction. This, taken together with the evidence of the string courses, suggests that the tower is likely to be of one build. Pevsner suggests that the tower is of fifteenth century date, presumably based on the date of features such as the west door. Whilst later features can be inserted into earlier structures, the integration of features such as the spiral stair and buttresses with the string courses are all consistent with the suggested fifteenth-century construction date for the tower. Please note that although the report on the recording is described as an interim report, no further work was deemed necessary and the repair work proceeded on the Tower. |
Author: |
H Cooper-Reade
M Phillips
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Publisher: |
Albion Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Hertfordshire HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2004
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Aston St Mary's Church ( tower) |
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ASTON |
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East Hertfordshire |
County: |
Herefordshire |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 527160, 222613 (Easting, Northing)
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albionar1-33677 |
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2004/95 |
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23 Nov 2016 |