Architectural Features
Priest's door covered by C17 gabled porch
Tower base with diagonally-set corner buttresses on south, rounded projection for spiral stairs, blocked door at foot, similar above for former gallery: line of medieval roof visible above.
Above 8-bay roof, single-span king-post trusses, 4 pairs purlins, no ridge piece, scissor bracing betweeen king posts, windbraces between trusses in lower part of slope, design similar to Wren's roof to Sheldonian, Oxford, by E.Taylor, monument in churchyard, (q.v.).
Organ C18, square corners, lyre tops, oval with swept gable and urn finial between, musical instruments carved over keyboard.
base of Saxon cross.
A mainly 13th century church built on the site of an earlier Anglo-Saxon church. Nice proportions.
Late C14 altar tomb of knight and lady in chancel arcade.
Viewed from the SE corner of the churchyard. St. Mary's Church has been a place of worship for almost 800 years. The 150ft high spire on its 14th century tower is a landmark for miles around. The church is now a place of worship shared by Anglicans, Baptists and Methodists. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3229668
5 wall monuments in chapel, one a C16 brass: fourteen C18 and early C19 wall monuments in nave, 1 on tower to Mrs. Bourchier, died 1784, said to be by Flaxman, angel on cloud with book, phoenix above.
The only brass in the church is to Roger Porter, died April 1523. He was one of the commissioners of Gaol Delivery at Gloucester Castle - a cross between magistrate and Grand Jury member. Two of the shields are missing from the slab, which is now on the wall.
originally with galleries on 3 sides, pulpit centre of north, reordered C19.
The tower of St Mary's church at Newent is topped by a spire.