The original ancient church at Croome was completely demolished by the Sixth Earl of Coventry along with his nearby Jacobean mansion in the 1750s. His new much grander mansion and church were designed and laid out by Lancelot Capability Brown. The new church, set on a low hill nearby in beautiful parkland, was designed as an ‘eye catcher’. It is a perfect fantasy of the period, and has the feel of a Victorian folly. It embodies the Eighteenth century fashion based upon a fanciful interpretation of mediaeval Gothic which is called Gothick design in architecture.
