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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Ambrosden

Oxfordshire

Late C12, C14 and C15

Architectural Features

3-bay C15 chancel with plinth parapet, and stepped buttresses, has 2-light arched side windows, all with similar Perpendicular tracery

C14 south aisle has 4 buttresses containing image niches, 2 of which may be earlier work

three 2-light side windows and the east window have C15 tracery, probably inserted into C14 windows

C14 lancet near the porch retains its original tracery but has been mutilated

Large porch has a 2-light traceried C15 window to east but retains a C14 trefoil window to west and a C14 entrance

Porch and aisle have a restored C14 pierced parapet of trefoils, that on the aisle rising from a corbel table of grotesque faces

C14 south doorway has continuous mouldings, and over it is a cinquefoiled image niche surrounded by ballflower ornament

North side of nave, probably mostly rebuilt C15, has 3 tall traceried 2-light windows and C15 stepped buttresses, but retains traces of an earlier archway at the east end and has a C12 doorway with a large roll moulding rising from detached shafts with cushion capitals

south-west angle has large C15 buttresses

re-used shafts flanking altar have C13 stiff-leaf capitals

Plain C15 chancel arch and similar tower arch

4-bay C14 south arcade has octagonal pier (one renewed) with moulded bases and capitals

Fittings include: C15 octagonal pedestal font, panelled with quatrefoils, with a panelled conical counterweighted cover of 1687

C17 bench pews

Monuments include an early C18 marble wall tablet to William Allen, with Corinthian pilasters and a triangular pediment, several C18 and C19 wall tablets below the tower and a group of C17 and C18 ledgers in the sanctuary

Stained glass in east window c.1900. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.V, pp. 26-8