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St Mary

St Mary

Ewelme

Oxfordshire

Early C14 west tower, rest of c.1432, north porch rebuilt 1832, south porch repaired 1874

Architectural Features

C15 double-leaf door with Perpendicular tracery pattern, ribbing and studding to flattened two-centre moulded stone arch with quatrefoil carving to spandrels and hood mould

Moulded string-course to clerestory parapet with carved stone faces between windows

Rear: open timber frame porch to left of centre of aisle with C15 ribbed and studded door

C15 ribbed and studded door to left of chapel, with quatrefoil carving to spandrels and hood mould

Moulded string course to clerestory parapet with carved stone faces between the windows

Interior: moulded two-centre arched arcades to aisles with piers of clustered columns, and carved angels bearing shields to spandrels, except to south of nave, which has blank shields to the spandrels

C15 ribbed roof, with feather-bodied angels with out-spread wings to intersection of beams to chapel roof

Octagonal bowl font with quatrefoil carving with shields to each side, on a base panelled with blind ogee arches

The spectacular wood cover, presented by John, Duke of Suffolk, after the death of his mother in 1475, is of four tiers of cusped and crocketted arches with figure of St

counterpoise is a carved Tudor rose

Chest tomb to Thomas Chaucer (d.1434), and his wife, Matilda Burghersh (d.1436) with fine brasses to top and painted coats of arms to sides, in chapel

angels under canopies to sides

C15 wood screens, shortened in 1844, restored in 1925