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St Mary

St Mary

Ardley

Oxfordshire

C14 (possibly partly earlier) and 1792, restored 1865

Architectural Features

C14 rubble chancel has good flowing tracery in the 3-light east window and in the 2-light windows to west of it

C14 priest's door

The saddleback-roofed tower, which has c14 diagonal buttresses and marlstone banding to its lower stages, has a pointed western doorway of c.1792 below a square-headed 2-light C14 window

Interior: Chancel has an unusual C13 double recess, one half of which is a piscina

To north is an elaborately-cusped ogee-headed C14 tomb recess

The plain chancel arch has C13 detached shafts with moulded capitals, but the northern base may be earlier, The tower arch is probably C14 but is partly concealed by a western gallery of 1834

Fittings include a C12 tub font and two C17 chests, There is a wall monument of 1753 in the chancel, and several plainer tablets.