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St Gregory

Architectural Features

C14 and C15 work and C17/C18 alterations

C14 chancel of 3 bays has moulded plinth, and offset buttresses with small gables

Chancel and C15 vestry have coped gables, and an ashlar polygonal stack at joint

Restored C14 five-light east window with geometrical tracery, and hollow-chamfered surround with hood mould and labels

To north and south, two and three C14 windows of 2 lights with single quatrefoils and hollow chamfered surrounds

To south a further C14 blocked window of single cusped light

To north of vestry a C15 doorway with tracery over

C15 porch with moulded plinth, offset diagonal buttresses, moulded and coped parapet

Doorway has pointed arch with many-moulded surround, the hollow moulding with fleuron decoration and a winged angel at the apex

Porch roof inside has moulded beams with carved wood Tudor rose boss to centre and half-bosses to north and south

Mid C14 aisles

with reset C12 doorway to south with shaft and stiff-leaf capital and lozenge moulded arch

Above C12 door on south aisle a sundial

C14 tower of 4 stages with offset buttresses rising to top, moulded plinth, stage bands and quatrefoil parapet

C15 octagonal spire with 2 moulded string courses

To west of first stage of tower a C14 two-light window with geometrical tracery

Interior: to north and south of chancel a C15 recess

Nave arcade cut into church mid C12 and consists of round piers with responds to east, with many-scalloped capitals and square abaci

North arcade has 2, and south arcade has one, carved corbel supporting hood moulds to arcade

Some medieval wall painting remains on west wall

South aisle has C15 chamfered doorway west of main door

with original C15 door with traceried head

C15 recess towards east

Restored C15 roofs with moulded tie beams resting upon grotesque corbels

Aisle roofs also C15

those to south resting on carved wood corbels

C15 octagonal font with flat traceried panels in octagonal base of 2 steps

Complete set of C15 benches with traceried panels and moulded rails

C15 rood screen on stone wall with tracery carving

C17 pulpit of 2 tiers with canopy and back panel

Late C17 communion rail reset under tower arch

C16 lectern

In south aisle floor a brass to Alice, the wife of William Barnes, the date now lost

In west wall of north aisle, reset from chancel floor, 2 brasses

One a C15 effigy of a priest

other a kneeling figure