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St Mary

St Mary

Upcott

Herefordshire

C14 with later alterations.

Architectural Features

Above the upper loop of the west side is a single medieval head.

INTERIOR has C14 open wagon chancel roof with crested wall plates.

C16 nave roof has trusses forming 6 and half bays with angle struts to ties and slopes divided into panels.

East window has C19 stained glass depicting saints.

South-east window has late C19 stained glass of the Annunciation and Nativity.

Later C19 oak and brass communion rails.

Wall monument on south side to Henry Mason, died 1794, in black and grey marble.

Brass plaque for Henry Allen, dated 1767.

On north wall monument for Thomas Carwardin, died 1746 has three cherubs surrounding inscription.

Late C19 brass candelabrum in form of a wheel with eight candlesticks hangs from middle of roof.

Vestry has two-bay wagon roof with curved braces and trefoil-headed wind braces, perhaps C14.

Chancel arch is C14 with two-centred head and two orders.

Label with headstops and carved head to apex of outer order.

Low two-centred tower arch is filled with C17 panelling comprising four turned balusters and two flat barleysugar balusters respectively to right and left of illeted door.

Font is C19 octagonal with two pairs of ogee-headed panels to each face of bowl.

Contemporary oak pulpit has trefoiled panels.

Eastern pews have desks with C17 panelling incorporating grotesques and arch motifs.

Two matching wall monuments to either side of tower arch for Thomas and William Foley, died 1822 and 1828, with single urn to cornice of each.

Wall memorial plaque to the 17 men of the parish who died from 1914-19 and six from 1939-45. (Building of England, p 65