Christ Healing, Ullingswick
Ullingswick is another very rural location, St Luke's church being one of so many in Herefordshire to be found in such a peaceful setting. Again this was never a lar.ge church and remains more or less a simple two-cell building of nave and chancel with little structural addition since.
The building would have been originally Norman but its windows have mostly been enlarged since to admit more light than the original tiny slits that pierced its walls (one of which remains on the south side). There was never any kind of tower, the present wooden bellcote topped by a small shingled spire was added only in 1862 by the architect Kempson who restored the building and also added the porch.
Inside the effect and furnishings are mostly of the Victorian restoration and later, but there are some features of real interest, such as a painted Elizabethan memorial tablet and a very fine 15th century Madonna & Child reset in the upper part of the east window, an outstanding medieval survival set amidst much later glass by Clayton & Bell.
Ullingswick church was open and welcoming when | called in pre-Covid days. It is well worth a visit for its peaceful charm along with the more exceptional features mentioned above.
www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/ullings...
Christ Healing, Ullingswick
Ullingswick is another very rural location, St Luke's church being one of so many in Herefordshire to be found in such a peaceful setting. Again this was never a lar.ge church and remains more or less a simple two-cell building of nave and chancel with little structural addition since.
The building would have been originally Norman but its windows have mostly been enlarged since to admit more light than the original tiny slits that pierced its walls (one of which remains on the south side). There was never any kind of tower, the present wooden bellcote topped by a small shingled spire was added only in 1862 by the architect Kempson who restored the building and also added the porch.
Inside the effect and furnishings are mostly of the Victorian restoration and later, but there are some features of real interest, such as a painted Elizabethan memorial tablet and a very fine 15th century Madonna & Child reset in the upper part of the east window, an outstanding medieval survival set amidst much later glass by Clayton & Bell.
Ullingswick church was open and welcoming when | called in pre-Covid days. It is well worth a visit for its peaceful charm along with the more exceptional features mentioned above.
www.britainexpress.com/counties/hereford/churches/ullings...