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Churches which still retain west gallery features or connections |
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| Dudley, St Andrew | Rebuilt 1814. Galleries on three sides. Pulpit reduced from a three-decker. |
| Great Witley, St Michael and All Angels | The west gallery is still in use and contains the casing of the organ from Canons, (near Little Stanmore, in Essex), a house in which it would have been played by Handel during his time of employment with the duke. The organ itself is a 19th century replacement. The pews, reading desk and pulpit were installed in the 19th century by the Earl of Dudley, who had bought Witley Court from the Foleys. Under the Earl of Dudley Witley Court itself was expanded and the brick walls were faced with Bath stone, as was the church. |
| Hartleybury, , St James |
 The
church of St
James consists of a chancel, with south
chapel and north organ chamber and vestry, nave with north
and south aisles, continued west to form staircases to the
side galleries, a western tower and a west porch. The
building is almost completely modern, having been designed
by Rickman in 1836Also historically called St. Mary the Virgin. 
Geograph, with thanks. |
| Ombersley, St Andrew |
The church was built in 1883 by
Rickman in 14th C. style. Thus the exterior looks mediaeval, but the interior
looks like that of a non-conformist congregation, with galleries, box-pews and
the austerity expected of the time. In contrast there is a Squire's pew,
handsomely fitted out. In 1958 the galleries still remained, although there was
an intention to remove them. (CEPC)
The interior is typical of its time, with plaster vaults (picked out in an alluring turquoise) galleries above the aisles and also a deep west gallery. (Info from Phil Draper) |
| Strensham, St John the Baptist | The church stands on high ground close to the River Avon, and is alone in the fields. The painted front of the old rood-loft was re-used as the front of the west gallery; it depicts 23 different saints. |
| Tenbury Wells, dedication not known | The parish church, tucked away behind the main street of the town, and kept open. Dull interior, much restored by the Victorians after floods which damaged the nave. West gallery and wide aisles. Interesting monuments, however, including the supposed tomb of a crusader and the 16th century alabaster effigy of the local squire and his wife in the south aisle. |
| Worcester, St Martin | Built 1767 onwards. A West gallery was built in the church in the early 1800s across two of the windows and two of the memorial stones dating from the late 1700s of two of the parish's deceased families who are buried in the crypt below. There were also galleries in the north and south aisles which lasted only a short time. The west gallery remains. |
| Worcester, St Swithun | Built in 1734-36 by Edward and Thomas Woodward (who built St John's, Gloucester and Bewdley Church, inter alia, this church both within and without is a perfectly preserved example of the early 18th century, untouched by any restoration, and containing all the fittings of the period - font, organ, box-pews, altar, an imposing three-decker pulpit with the addition of a seat for the Mayor and a stand for his Mace. This is a Georgian church with everything still as it was intended to be. # |
Churches which are known to have had west gallery features or connections |
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