The Anglican Church of the Holy Rood at

Daglingworth Daglingworth is a Gloucestershire village in the valley of the River Dunt, near the A417 road connecting Gloucester and Cirencester. As with many smaller villages in the Cotswolds, most of the buildings are now private houses. Other properties ar ...

in the

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, England was built in the 11th century. It is a Grade I

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History

The church was built in the 11th century and extended, including the tower, in the 15th. A

Victorian restoration The Victorian restoration was the widespread and extensive wikt:refurbish, refurbishment and rebuilding of Church of England church (building), churches and cathedrals that took place in England and Wales during the 19th-century Victorian era, re ...

, between 1845 and 1850, included the addition of the north

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and rebuilding the

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Architecture

The

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building had stone slate roofs. It consists of a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

with south porch,

, north aisle and west tower. The tower contains four bells, the oldest of which date from 1720. The nave was divided by a cross wall, with a loft for the priest above, but this was removed in the 19th century. There is an organ above the

chancel arch In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse. Ove ...

. A series of Saxon carvings, including one of the crucifixion, were rediscovered during rebuilding work in 1850. They predate the

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and follow the Syrian tradition. They are dated to around 1050. The carvings were originally built into the chancel arch and are now in the nave. The previous

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is Romanesque, and now used as a

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. The

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is from the 15th century, and includes a carving of the

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. The south porch was built in the 15th century and contains a Saxon sundial. In the churchyard the remains of steps and shaft of a medieval cross can be seen.

References

{{reflist Church of England church buildings in Gloucestershire Grade I listed churches in Gloucestershire