St Mary

substantially rebuilt C17.

string with gargoyles below plain parapet which has small (almost insignificant) crocketed pinnacles at angles, C17 bell chamber openings are round arched with two-light panel tracery (with transoms), lancets below

Nave: C17 clerestory windows

two labelled, almost round-arched C17 3-light windows on moulded cill band and pointed entrance in smaller east bay

South door circa 1300 pointed with deep moulded reveal, three pilasters, ball-flower towards extrados and moulded finial

Chancel: late C13 of four bays divided by thin buttresses of two stages

Tudor arch priest door to right of centre bay on south side.

Pointed chancel arch of early C13 with steps up to chancel.

Pulpit: stone, C19, four sides of an octagon with arcading.

Font: C12 drum-shaped with low relief carving depicting a donkey.

SK0237 : Checkley, St. Mary and All Saints Church: The font with its Saxon bowl (detail)

© Michael Garlick

Choir stalls: circa 1535 with poppyhead finials.

Monument: cross legged C14 knight to chancel north

effigy of Godfrey Foljambe and wife to south on alabaster crest circa 1560

hatchment over south door.

Glass: C14 glass in chancel.