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the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Assumption Of The Blessed Virgin Mary

Beckley

Oxfordshire

C14 and C15, restored 1845

Architectural Features

plain-tile and sheet-metal roofs

The C14 chancel has 2-light side windows and a 3-light east window, all with Reticulated tracery, and a priest's doorway to south with its medieval door

The parapetted south aisle has similar Decorated windows, to west and west of the porch, but to east and east of the porch has C15 windows with 3 lights under 4-centred arches

The C15/early C16 porch has a wide 4-centre arched outer doorway, with ancient double-leaf doors, beneath a small cusped niche

the parapet string has corner heads and a gargoyle

The 4-centre arched C15 south doorway has a richly-moulded rectangular surround with label and has quatrefoils and mouchettes in the spandrels

The door is C13 and has elaborate hinges, The C15 north aisle has 2-light windows with Perpendicular tracery, to north and east, and a blocked north doorway

The nave has square-headed C15 clerestorey windows and a west doorway similar to that on the south, but retains a late C13 west window of 3 lights with Intersecting tracery

at the north-east angle is a 2-stage circular stair turret, with a short octagonal spirelet, which may be C13 or earlier

its 7-canted medieval roof has coupled rafters with king posts rising to upper collars, The central tower has four C14 arches of 2 chamfered orders dying into single-chamfered responds

The C15 nave has a 2-bay arcade with delicate cruciform piers and a stone missal desk built into the north-east respond

C13 wall paintings on the west and south outer wall faces of the tower

C17 paintings on the tower and the west wall of the nave

C14 and C15 stained-glass panels and figures in north aisle and in some tracery lights of chancel windows

other C19 glass in chancel, west window of nave, and east and west windows of south aisle

Fittings include a C12 tub font, C15 bench pews in and aisles, a C17 pulpit with arched panels and tester, a medieval chest, and a C17 bier in the porch

Wall monument in chancel to Anne Croke (died 1609) has a brass engraving and inscription in a Classical stone frame beneath an achievement