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St Mary

Architectural Features

south door, C15 nave and north aisle west tower.

Tower, perhaps 1503, ashlar plinth, knapped flint to west face only.

4 panel C15 west door with tracery spandrels panels.

Inscription reported on east side to Ralph Blondeville, 1503.

4 bay nave has 4 lower and 4 clere- storey 3-light Perpendicular tracery windows unusual 2 storey south elevation explained by addition of later C15 knapped flint clerestorey.

4 south buttresses with set-offs and ashlar facings, same details as those of tower, possibly 1503.

Single C14 south porch with outer arch, north and south quatre- foils, richer entrance arch without bases or capitals.

Nave north side has Perpendicular 2-light west window, 2 2-light straight headed north windows 3-light west window, perhaps C17.

Perpendicular north door Decorated 4-bay chancel associated with date of 1301 recorded in no longer extant east window inscription to William Careltone : "construxit hunc cancellum Anno Domini MCCCI".

Roof heightened above line of c.1300 windows.

Chancel north side has one c.1300 central 2 light window with trefoil headed lights and trefoil spandrel.

One large south 3-light window c.1300 with 2 canted and one upright trefoils in spandrel.

C19 north vestry addition has reused C14 west window.

Semi-octagonal moulded wall posts on corbels with bases and capitals, arched wall plates, moulded brackets supporting hammerbeams with liturgically vested angels with instruments.

Outstretched winged angels at junctions with moulded purlins and bosses at junction with ridge.

At the wall plate a moulded coving section has lower brattishing, 2 out-stretched winged angels to each half bay, upper painted chevron moulding, traceried panel and crowning brattishing.

Circular stone font bowl, perhaps C12, elaborate painted and carved font cover, 1897.

Royal Arms of Charles I over north aisle north door.

Fine traceried 7-light north aisle screen, partly C15.

North aisle altar 1978, incorporating 4 C14 painted panels of Fortitude, Temperance, Mercy and Justice.

C15 rood stairs door at north-east in north aisle, and rood loft door against chancel arch.

Elaborate c.1897 Decorated' detail oak carved rood screen, similar to altar and reredos by Hicks.

Indistinct medieval Doom painting above chancel arch.

Fine but over-restored south side sedilia and piscina, mid-C14, with corbels and painted diapering.

North side heavily restored c.1300 Easter Sepulchre.

Brass: a civilian, holding a church as donor, possibly Sir William Calthorpe who claimed in his will to have rebuilt the church, giving a possible date for the clerestorey and roofs.

Elaborate carved and painted altar and reredos, c.1897 by Hicks of Newcastle on Tyne.