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St Mary

St Mary

Ilmington CP

Warwickshire

Mid C12 with late C12

Architectural Features

early C13

mid C14

C15 and C16 alterations and additions

Limestone ashlar and squared, coursed rubble with tile roofs

C12, rebuilt early C13

Hood mould with C13 carved head label stops.Similar carved head at apex below a single pointed lancet

Hollow chamfered surrounds and hood moulds with carved label stops

C14 two-light cusped window to north with curvilinear tracery

Nave of three bays is C12 with late C14 clerestory

To south an early C16 porch with moulded plinth and diagonal offset buttresses

Above, the remains of the C12 arch with zig-zag mould

C15 cusped niche with poppy head

broken through C12 arch

C20 plank door with carved mouse on surround

To left of porch a C14 two-light window with reticulated tracery and double-chamfered surround

North transept is C13

enlarged C15 and has diagonal offset buttresses

To east and west two C15 two-light square-headed windows with hood mould and carved label stops

C15 south transept, almost entirely rebuilt C19, has Perpendicular style windows to east and west, with a three-light window to south in Decorated style

first two stages are C12 with broad

flat buttresses and C12 round-headed lancets to south and west

C15 top stage has castellated parapet with a gargoyle below to each side

C15 two-light cusped bell-chamber windows with stone slate louvres

C12 stair turret has single lights to west with a further C15 light to top stage

Interior: chancel has C13, four-bay niche arcade to north and south with hollow-chamfered surrounds

Further C15 triple sedilia with cusps restored C19, small cusped piscina to left

Restored C12 round-headed chancel arch of two orders of shafts and capitals

North transept arch is C13 with round shaft and capital north-west and C19 polygonal respond to east

Hood mould with C13 carved head label stop

C19 south transept arch in C15 style

C12 round-headed quadruple-chamfered tower arch

C15 roofs, restored C20, rest on stone corbels

Polygonal moulded font C19 stained glass in chancel

C15 effigy of priest in tower

Brass to Brent family

with a brass of the Brent wyvern to either side

Brass tablet to Biles Palmer

Further brass to Edmund, son of Henry Jones, died 1667

C20 pews with 'mouse' carvings by the mouse man of Kilburn'. Good C16 chest in tower. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, pp.316-7