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St Mary

St Mary

Barwell

Leicestershire

Circa 1300-50 with late C15 clerestory

Architectural Features

The 3-stage west tower has a series of offsets, a moulded plinth and a crenellated parapet with gargoyles at the four corners.

Late C15 battlemented clerestory with hollow chamfered parapet string and continuous moulded coping around the merlons and crenels

Low pitched C15 nave roof carried on cambered tie beams, brattished along the top and supported by shafted brackets which stand on stone corbels carved as heads.

On the soffit of each tie beam is a carved boss (c.f. Church of Margaret, Stoke Golding C.P.

Fixtures and fittings: plain cylindrical font, probably medieval.

Altar, reredos, altar rail, choir stalls and pulpit are all of one period and style

C14 Easter sepulchre with segmental pointed arch, and sedilia and piscina with 2-centred drop arches and a continuous hood mould.

Monuments: John Turkeray,died 1613

the panel inside is trefoil-headed with pendant cusps and contains a brass plate depicting Turkeray, who was parish priest, preaching in a pulpit to his assembled wife and children.

Richard Brereton, died 1659

brass plate with the engraved figures of Brereton and his wife standing with their sons and daughters behind the respective parents.

At the back of the Easter sepulchre is a brass plate to Susanna Stafford, died 1676, and one to Mary Seagrave, died 1730.