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St Mary

St Mary

Ham Butts

Gloucestershire

Late C14, nave c.1480, C15 tower, restoration 1883 by Waller, including rebuilt south aisle arcade, porch 1968.

Architectural Features

South front has a baroque wall monument, cusped lancet and 2-light belfry opening.

Plinth, parapet string, blocking and moulded capping, gargoyles.

arch-braced single slope roof, 3 windows with early C20 glass, by Powell.

Detail of the carving.

Four carved corbel heads and one blocked but unworked, on north wall.

Detail of the carving.

© Penny Mayes

St Peter's chapel, probably of 1377 build has two 2-light C14 style windows and 4-light to east, arch-braced rafter roof with one moulded tie-beam.

On the north side a C15 Purbeck marble tomb.

Tudor canopy including fan vault carved from solid alabaster effigies of early C7 moved here in C18, when central Corinthian column inserted as vault support.

East window is 2 x 2-light C15 form over a splendid stone reredos with fluted Ionic columns and broken pediment with decalogue: screen by John Bryan is 1743.

Fittings and monuments: standing near to pulpit, remaining section of C14 spire.

Royal Arms, William IV.

Various white marble monuments in tower

in north aisle a model of the Bonaventura of 1885, good carved C17 slab under first window from west, also Ann Berriman, 1738.

South chapel includes 6 good wall monuments, including Revd George D.... of 1686.

nothing of the C12 church remains.