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St Mary

Witney

Oxfordshire

Late C12 and early C13: remodelled c.1330-40, Coursed limestone rubble, with old rendering, to part of south wall of chancel

Architectural Features

Chancel has clasping corner buttresses and early C14 curvilinear 3-light east window

south side has label moulds with head stops over C15 two- and 3-light windows and C15 doorway with C18 door

Early C14 north chapel: 3 fine heads above two early C14 two-light windows with elaborate curvilinear tracery

North side of nave has two early C14 two-light windows and hood mould over C14 blocked door

South aisle has late C13 trefoiled lancet, label mould over early C14 two-light window and C15 three-light west window with panel tracery

early C13 south porch has round-arched hood mould over pointed arched doorway: pointed roll-moulded south door with moulded imposts

Early C14 north-west tower has 2-light windows and stone flight of steps to painted arched doorway

Interior: east window has early C14 responds with ballflower capitals to rere-arch

early C14 double-piscina

C14 three-bay chancel roof with scissor-braced trusses

Early C14 two-bay hollow-chamfered arcade to north chapel

roof, probably C15, of quartered moulded beams

Early C14 double-chamfered chancel arch to nave, which has C12 tub font on C14 octagonal base

C15 three-bay tie-beam roof

Transitional early C13 south arcade has double-chamfered pointed arches, and round pier with scalloped capital

C14 three-bay north arcade has double-chamfered arches set on octagonal piers

North aisle has archway to tower, and C15 roof with moulded beams

Monuments: between chancel and north chapel is a tomb chest with a very fine early C14 effigy of Margaret de Grey with angels supporting the pillow

Chancel has late C17 wall monument of the Crutchfield family, in local Baroque style

Stained glass: east window of north chapel has early C14 glass with foliate decoration in tracery lights

The church originated as a 2-cell late Saxon structure

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