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St Mary

St Mary

Upper Battlefield

Shropshire

C12, partly rebuilt in the C15 or C16, tower (and probably vestry) added in 1837, and nave and chancel restored in 1883.

Architectural Features

Plain tile roof.

Louvred 2-light belfry openings with Y-tracery, chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds with carved heads as stops.

West front with circular clock to second stage, 2-light square window to second stage with stone mullion and hoodmould with carved heads as stops, and west doorway consisting of a pair of doors with panelled tracery, moulded Tudor arch with trefoil-panelled spandrels, and square hoodmould with carved heads as stops.

Nave and chancel: chamfered plinth, C14 or C15 diagonal buttresses to east and west with chamfered offsets, large old buttresses to north and south with chamfered offsets, C19 chamfered stone eaves, and parapeted gable ends, with finial at apex to east.

South side: nave has small ogee cinquefoil-headed window to left with carved spandrels , restored C15 or C16 square-headed window to right of 2 round-arched lights,

central blocked C12 doorway consisting of one order of shafts with stiff leaf capitals and arch with square chevron ornament.

Chancel has 2 square-headed windows of 2 cinquefoil- headed lights (right-hand one C15 or C16) and probably C16 central priest's doorway with rounded reveals and boarded door.

Wooden rood screen of 2:1:2 bays with cusped openings and shafts to loft with rood above.

Wooden pulpit.

Octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels.

Stone Gothic memorial tablet to Anne, wife of John Bishton of Astley House consisting of cinquefoil arch with flanking pinnacles and crocketed finial.

Some C19 stained glass.

The chancel appears to have been added or rebuilt at a later date, probably in the C15 or C16