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St Mary

Souldern

Oxfordshire

Mid-C12 north wall and doorway

Architectural Features

South aisle added in late C12 and rebuilt in the C14 re-using the Romanesque round piers but employing new pointed arches and the capitals of the responds carved with heads

Diagonal buttresses, gargoyle and corbel table with carved heads

C15 south porch has wide pointed arched doorway, stone bench seats and stoup

South aisle has original C14 roof

Chancel arch has foliage and carved head on the responds indicating a rebuilding of c.1300

C12 tub font

Chancel has 3 brasses

One to Thomas Warner dated 1514 and another to an unknown woman, C16

Also a heart with scrolls c.1460, the original inscription has been replaced by a C16 inscription to J. Throckmorton

C19 reading desk, pulpit and pews. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp768-9

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