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St Mary

Great Witcombe

Gloucestershire

C12, C15 and mid C18.

Architectural Features

Two small Tudor-arched single-light windows at the east end above the level of the chancel roof.

two reused pieces of C12 stonework with diaper decoration suggests the chancel was rebuilt during the C13

early plank door far right within a moulded Tudor-arched surround with carved spandrels and hood with diamond stops

Plastered wagon roof to the nave with panelling with finely carved foliate bosses and brattishing at the east end

C12 chancel arch with plain inner arch and chevroned outer arch rising from engaged jamb shafts with scalloped capitals

small Tudor- arched doorway to tower stairs to the right.

Furniture and fittings: C19 copy of the C12 font at Lasborough comprising a simple stone bowl, at the west end of the nave arcade.

Octagonal wooden pulpit made from carved C17 panelling and barley-twist balusters from the.old manor house at Witcombe Park.

Small C17 carved wooden box with the Dragon motif-on-the front beside the pulpit.

Small C17 communion table with turned legs and inscriptions 'LOVE AS BRETHEREN 1688 / DOE THIS IN REMEMBRANCE OF MEE / BE YE ALL OF ONE MINDE' in relief on 3 sides.

Monuments: 2 ledgers to members of the Hicks family, one mid C18 one dated 1801 in the floor of the chancel.

Eight marble monuments to members of the Hicks family on the walls of the chancel, two C18, five C19

one C20 Royal arms of George III and C19 wooden commandment board in the north aisle.

Fragments of C15 stained glass in the tracery of the windows of the north aisle.

C19 stained glass to the windows of the nave and chancel.

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