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St Mary

Hasfield

Gloucestershire

C13, C14-15, tower restored 1719, major restoration and north aisle by Thomas Fulljames (q.v. Hasfield Court and monument in churchyard).

Architectural Features

C19 three-light east window with C14 style flowing tracery and hood with head stops.

Stone eaves cornice around vestry and vault with carved floral and foliate bosses.

C19 three-light east window with hood with carved head stops.

C19 plank door with decorative strap hinges and hood with carved head stops.

C19 pointed west window with hood with carved head stops.

lower stages C13, upper stage C14-15.

String below with gargoyles offset from each corner.

Timber- arched entrance (restored C19) retains some C16 timbers, T-shaped strut above collar, trefoil at apex, C16 bargeboard with carved foliate decoration.

C16 truss against south wall of nave within porch forming almost pointed hollow-chamfered archway.

4-bay nave arcade with octagonal piers with ballflower band around each capital, moulded hood with angel steps.

Double-chamfered C13 or C14 arch to tower, C19 segmental-pointed arch from nave to chancel, wide C19 segmental-pointed arch in north wall of chancel with C19 plank door to vestry, in blocking.

C14 two-bay wagon roof in nave with original tie beam with moulded soffit.

Tie beam against chancel arch with brattished decoration along upper edge, 4-leafed flower decoration on soffit, carved bird at centre, stone figure of Christ crucified on wooden cross above, flanked by two stone figures.

Four-leafed flower decoration continues down soffit of braces with carved spandrels supported by carved wooden angel corbels: Cl9 arch-braced roof with collar and struts to north aisle.

C19 panelled roof with angel corbels in stone in chancel.

Fittings: C12 tub-shaped font on chamfered rectangular plinth at west end of nave.

C19 pulpit in south-west corner of nave, incorporating reused carved C17 panels.

C19 pews some incorporating C15/16 bench ends with blind tracery.

Monuments

monument to Henry Brown (q.v. The Great House) died 1620, Jacobean-Renaissance cream and grey marble monument with Corinthian columns and heraldry.

Monument to John Barnes of Tirley Court, died 1820, white marble with urn at top and branches at bottom.

C19 white monument on blocking within segmental-pointed arch below.

Chest tomb to Dorothy Pauncefoot (q.v. Hasfield Court) died 1568

monument to James Alderson, former rector, died 1604.

Blue lias with curved top and crudely inscribed winged angel and floral decoration.

monument to Thomas Fulljames of Hasfield Court, died 1847, and other members of that family

brass plaque with ivy-leaf decoration around margin, paired heraldic shields at each corner.

C19 stained glass in all windows of chancel, at east end of north aisle and in west window within tower.

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