major restoration of the church was planned. William Morris, an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Arts and Crafts Movement, who lived away at Kelmscott in Oxfordshire, campaigned to save the building without unsympathetic alterations. This resulted not just in support but also and unusually a fund-raising campaign by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB). The Society was established in 1877 and its manifesto, which Morris wrote, set out its principles "to stave off decay by daily care … and otherwise to resist all tampering with either the fabric or ornament of the building as it stands". They employed J.T. Micklethwaite to oversee the work during 1888 and 1889. Oswald Birchall undertook a survey of the church which enabled Morris and John Henry Middleton to prepare a report for SPAB in 1885, suggesting the repairs be funded, as the rector George Woodbury Spooner said that it was beyond the means of the parishioners. Further restoration by Percival Hartland Thomas was carried out in 1933 to replace the remains of the reredos from around 1330 in the chancel. The church was declared redundant in 1979 and vested in the Redundant Churches Fund (which has since become the Churches Conservation Trust) in 1981. Architecture The small church has no tower, but does have a 13th-century double bellcote, with pointed trefoiled lights, on the west gable of the nave. It contains two bells dated 1717, which were made by Abraham Rudhall, the founder of Rudhall of Gloucester. The masonry is limewashed, and surmounted by a parapet and head spouts. The walls are thick and high. The church has a aisled nave and an aisleless chancel. The chancel replaced a previous one which was square and has a roof which includes tie beams which may date back to the 13th century. The nave has mediaeval queen post and wind brace roof, which is supported by two responds and a central pier. The 15th-century cross outside the church has three steps to a high plinth with a pyramid stop-chamfer surmounted by a tall shaft with pyramid stop-chamfer and crested capping. It is listed at Grade II*. Interior The interior of the church contains wall paintings dating from the 13th to the early 19th centuries, some of which are illustrated in Professor E. W. Tristram's English Wall Painting of the Fourteenth Century. Tristram notes that