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St Mary

Architectural Features

Mid C15 square tower, 23m high

Moulded west doorway with shield-carved spandrels

4-bay nave, completed c.1478, with contemporary porch.

the jambs and arch are also carved with fleurons, masks and beasts' heads

moulded entrance arch, the spandrels carved with St George and the dragon

3-bay chancel of c.1300, the 2-light side windows and Priest's doorway substantially intact

the angels at the ends of the lower hammerbeams are a mid C20 addition.

Chancel has intact angle piscina of c.1300 with a drop-sill sedilia adjacent

Off Church Road

C15 octagonal font on a wide, 2-stepped base

Off Church Road

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bowl panels carved with Signs of the Evangelists and shield-bearing angels

Tall C15 font cover with crocketed and buttressed canopy, much restored

Fine and unusual set of early C17 nave box pews, splaying outwards to west: carved ends with knob finials and back-to-back consoles

a carved panel to the front of one bench at the east end bears the date 1630.

Early C17 carved hexagonal pulpit with suspended tester

Dado of C15 rood screen with 6 2-light traceried panels.

Chancel contains 3 good wall monuments: Sir John Major

Several C17-C18 ledger slabs in nave.

Tracery of nave windows contains fragments of C15 glass.

Small remains of medieval wall painting on north nave wall