St Mary
Longcot
Oxfordshire
Church of St Mary II* 2. C13 refenestrated in the C15, given a W tower in 1722 and restored in 1897
Architectural Features
The N porch is timber faced with a carved bargeboard and a plank door
The N doorway is C13 with a moulded trefoiled head supported on slim colonettes and stiff leaf capitals
C13 Chancel arch on plain imposts has the remains of the rood stairs behind its N jamb
There is also a C13 - trefoiled piscina in the chancel S wall
The nave windows are filled with badly fired mid-Victorian stained glass that was brought from Newbury parish church in about 1935
The polygonal pulpit is a fine piece of Jacobean woodwork with much strapwork and arcading, the altar table is also Jacobean of plain design and a 6 foot high painted Royal Arms of 1733 lies beside the tower arch.