Italianate loggia, Hoarwithy

A couple of weeks ago we visited a number of "H.Art" arts and crafts exhibitions. This is an annual week in Herefordshire where artists and crafts-people get together, exhibit, and hopefully sell, their work. J.P. Seddon's Victorian Italianate church at Hoarwithy was one such site. The nave was full of a variety of exhibits and the narthex, loggia and back of the church had been turned into a large cafe serving refreshments to visitors. But not so full that I coudn't squeeze out a photograph of the columns and capitals of the loggia.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2

Hoarwithy's loggia

The visitor to St Catherine, Hoarwithy, usually remembers one of two features of the exterior - the Italianate campanile or the loggia (a rarity in Britain that Pevsner calls a cloister walk). The Mediterranean-inspired architecture is the work of the architect J. P. Seddon, who enlarged and transformed a church of 1842-3 with the present one of the 1870s and 1880s.

photo © T. Boughen     Camera: Olympus OMD E-M10