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St Mary

St Mary

Wootton

Oxfordshire

Probable late Saxon origins

Architectural Features

mainly mid C13, chancel rebuilt and refenestrated in early C14

early C16 clerestory

south side of chancel has late C13 Y-tracery window (restored C20), reset C15 head corbel, late C13 pointed roll-moulded doorway and C14 ogee-headed and trefoiled light

3-bay north aisle has C19 buttress, early C14 Curvilinear 2-light window and hood mould over blocked 2-centred arched doorway

early C16 two-light round-headed window to west

South side of nave has C19 buttress, 2 early C14 Curvilinear 2-light windows and label moulds over 2 late C14/C15 two-light ogee-headed windows

Fine Early English (mid C13) south porch has arch of 3 orders with hollow-chamfered arches set on engaged shafts with bell capitals

C16 chamfered lights to side walls and hood mould over mid C13 pointed moulded south door with C19 doors

Early C16 two-light round-headed clerestorey windows 3 stage west tower, remodelled in C15, has offset corner buttresses

early C14 curvilinear west window

C13 lancet to south

C15 two-light louvred belfry lights

C14 crenellated parapet with gargoyles and crocketed pinnacles

probably late Saxon blocked doorway to south

Mid C13 four-bay north arcade with double-chamfered arches set on round piers with moulded capitals

Late C14 octagonal font with convex sides and moulded base

C17 five-bay tiebeam roof with king studs and C15 and early C16 authropomorphic corbels

C15 hollow-chamfered west archway with moulded capitals to inner order

Mid C19 box pews and Gothic-style pulpit

Monuments: C19 memorial tablets include memorial in chancel to Reverend Charles Lee (d.1841) who endowed Bridge, Parrotts School and Church Cottages (q.v.). C17 and C18 ledger stones, include lozenge-shaped floor memorial dated 1631 in chancel

Baroque Harris Monument, with 1676 date and segmental pediment, to north

broken-pedimented monument to south with Doric triglyphs with guttae to base, commemorates Thomas Dee, d.1735

to east, a pedimented monument with Corinthian pilasters commemorates Charles Crisp, d.1740, and Baroque Monument with urn, swags and skulls commemorates Dorothy and Thomas Crisp, d.1702 and 1701

Nave has wall tablet with urn to Reverend John Gregory, d.1800, stele-type monument to Mary Anne Smallbones, d.1830, and wall monument surmounted by crest to Anne Sotham, d.1777. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp859-860

National Monuments Record