Architectural Features
Carved head stops to the left-hand window.
C18 memorial to right of the buttress with a partially legible inscription and two winged angels' heads at the top.
The children of Captain Edmund Bray (†1720) by Christopher Cass, seen in their everyday clothes being taken to heaven by a winged angel.
Early C16 north aisle, three C19 three-light windows with cusped and ogee-curved heads and stopped hoods.
Foliate scrollwork and winged angels' heads to two of the headstones.
Earlier C16 four-stage tower with lean-to extensions on the north and south sides.
Single-light segmental-headed windows with carved spandrels to the fourth stage.
Moulded string with carved heads at each corner below.
Three-light east window with tracery and stops in the form of carved heads.
Animal-head gargoyles on the sides.
Late C12 semi-circular chancel arch of 2 orders.
St Mary's church, Great Barrington dates from the late 12th century though was much restored in 1880 by F.C. Penrose.
Four-bay early C13 nave arcade with cylindrical columns with deeply moulded octagonal capitals and water-holding bases.
Early C16 flat, panelled ceiling with decorative foliate bosses.
Pierced brackets rising from carved head corbels (the latter possibly C19).
Three-bay chancel with C19 arch-braced trusses supported by C19 carved head corbels.
C15 image niche with brattished canopy over the west door.
early C20 pews, pulpit and choir stalls and communion rail.
large marble monument to Jane Bray, died 1711 and Edmond Bray, died 1720, and other members of that family.
Figures of the children in period dress being conducted over the clouds of heaven by a winged angel above the inscription.
The monument was possibly designed by Francis Bird and carved by Christopher Cass.
Recumbent limestone effigy of Captain Edmund Bray, died 1620, dressed in full armour at the west end of the north aisle. (The manor formerly belonged to the Bray family).
Memorial to Captain Edmund Bray, died 1620, in St Mary's church, Great Barrington.
Various monuments to members of the Talbot and Wingfield families within the chancel including a large marble monument to Mary, Countess Talbot, died 1787, by Joseph Nollekens with a half-draped female figure holding a medallion carved with a bust of the Countess.
Baroque marble estcutcheon to James Stephens, died 1692 with a painted heraldic shield at the top on the south wall of the nave.