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St Mary of the Purification

St Mary Of The Purification

Blidworth CP

Nottinghamshire

C15, west nave and south aisle rebuilt 1739, east part of the south aisle and chancel re-erected 1839.

Architectural Features

Restored C15 tower set on a deep chamfered plinth of two stages and embattled with single pinnacle at each angle.

Embattled north wall with four C17 round arched windows each with architrave surround, imposts and keystone.

The windows alternate with five small C14 carved heads.

Round arched C17 doorway with architrave surround, imposts and keystone, now part blocked and with single fixed light.

To the left of the porch are five C17 round arched windows each with architrave surround, imposts andkeystone.

To the left of the south aisle and set back is an outbuilding with arched doorway with keystone, to the left is a single pointed arched opening with metal grille and further left the remains of a coffin slab with decoratively carved C13 cross.

C15 octagonal ashlar font with panels decorated with blind, mainly panel, tracery, set on a pedestal and with C20 cover.

Early C19 pulpit transferred from Southwell Minster, c,1900, decorated with blind tracery, fleuron, crockets and carved heads.

There is a C17 chest and two chairs with carved backs.

Panelled reredos with eight C17 panels decorated with foliate carving set into decorative arches, transerred from Southwell Minster.

Alabaster monument to T. Leake, 1608, surround to the inscription decorated with a horn, skull, arrows, deer's head and other trappings of a Sherwood Forest Ranger.

There are a number of C19 memorials and a monument to those who died in the 1914-18 war.

In the single central south window is stained glass by Mayer & Co. of Munich and London, 1874.