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St Mary

Architectural Features

C16 nave and aisle.

South aisle with brick upper stage, large stone blocks below the eaves set in knapped flint wall with four re-used C15 windows.

Nave north wall with four buttresses and similar knapped flint and re-used C15 fenestration.

East window of south transept in shallow projection with three lights with three circles in head enclosing three trefoils linked by intersecting tracery, c.1280.

Fittings: reredos, C15 stone and rare in England, from Troyes.

Misericord stalls, three to south and four to north with C19 replacements.

C14 showing animals and human faces, Green Man and foliation.

Rood Screen, the base only, C15 with eight ogee traceried panels.

The Stained glass east window in St Mary's church, Wingham.

Early C14 stained glass in chancel south window.

The Stained glass east window in St Mary's church, Wingham.

© Philip Halling

West window of 1920, a memorial to the last member of the Oxenden family.

Monuments: in the nave

Sir Thomas Palmer, d.1625, by Nicholas Stone.

Standing black and white wall monument.

Full length figures of Sir Thomas and Lady Margaret on tomb chest, with Corinthian columns carrying segmental pediment with a smaller pediment thrusting through it and reclining putti with arcaded background and bracket to entablature.

Sir Thomas Palmer, d.1656, erected 1718.

Black and white standing wall monument with plinth, Corinthian columns to segmental pediment with putti and portrait bust at top.

Charles Tripp, d.1624.

Black pedimented wall plaque with side pieces containing two angels in oval wreathed recesses, the whole decorated with cherubs heads on wings.

The Oxenden Monument, 1682, suggested as by Arnold Quellin.

Free standing black and white marble monument with large white marble base inscribed and supported at the corners by black scrolls topped by ox heads, with drapes between them.

Tall obelisk with fruit and flower garlands carved all down the sides and topped with a vase.

The church was from 1282 to 1547 a collegiate church attached to Wingham College (which provided in its time four Archbishops and three bishops).