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St Mary

St Mary

St Mary Cray, Greater London

A Medieval parish church of the C13-C16, retaining considerable early fabric

Architectural Features

A small hanging monument to Margaret Crewes, d.1602 with kneeling figures

HISTORY The earliest visible fabric is the early C13 tower and the C13 arcades, but the long E and W responds on both arcades indicate that they were added to an earlier nave

The aisles were rebuilt in the C14, and the screens are indicative of work on the church in the C15

The S chapel was added or remodelled in the early C16, and the former S porch, which was two storied, may also have been added in the C16

C15 screens

A good collection of brasses, including Richard Abery, d.1508 and his three wives, and Philadelphia and Benjamin Greenwood, d. 1747 and 1773, said to be the last pre-Oxford Movement brasses