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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Bletchingley

Surrey

C11 tower, north chancel arcade and south chancel chapel C13 with C15 alterations

Architectural Features

south aisle and porch C15

Unbuttressed three stage tower with two-light window to west face and top stage with Perpendicular style windows and angle gargoyles

C15 three-light segmental head windows to south chancel chapel with quatrefoil opening below associated with Roger the Hermit of Bletchingley

Renewed south door under C15 roll moulded surround in rich battlemented and crocketed Perpendicular porch

C15 timber nave roof with tie beams supported on carved stone brackets in the shape of human and devils heads

Tower arch to west on square responds and corner shafts with upright leaf and volute carving

Chancel with Norman window on east end of north side

Fittings: reredos to east end of chancel by G.E Street 1870 including portrayal of Bishop Wilberforce amongst apostles

C15 stone canopy to north aisle in Chapel of the Holy Spirit

Jacobean oak pulpit, 1650

C15 stone font, octagonal bowl with quatrefoils, octagonal stem with trefoil-headed niches

Stained glass: two south aisle windows by Camper and Kempe

Monuments: South chapel east wall

Veined grey marble with darker grey ground, over life size standing figures in aedicular surround with crowning segmental arch inside broken and split pediment supporting fluted corinthian columns and panelled pilasters on panelled plinth

Standing figures of Sir Robert and Lady Clayton in contemporary dress with their son in swaddling clothes between

Monument to Anna, Lady Clayton 1772 by William Tyler

Small brass plate on top with Italic inscription

North aisle, east bay: Monument to Sir William Beasley died 1809 by J. Bacon junior

Stone, grey ground with white marble female figure carrying scales

North Aisle wall: Monument to Nathaniel Harris