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St Mary the Virgin (Church of England)

St Mary The Virgin (church Of England)

Aston

Hertfordshire

Nave and chancel C1230, W tower late C14 or early C15, low pitched timber roofs and new windows late C15, restoration and N aisle 1850

Architectural Features

Double trefoil-headed C13 piscina near alter on S. 2 C16 windows in S wall flanking a blocked small C19 pointed doorway visible outside

Carved and panelled oak choirstalls c1886 from St Mary's Lambeth installed 1973

C16 chancel arch with half-octagonal section and fluted mouldings and capitals

Nave has a 3-bay roof with cranked tie-beams, 4-centred arched braces springing from moulded wall-posts on carved stone head-corbels

Carved bosses at junctions of ridge and purlins with secondary principals

Octagonal oak pulpit later Cl7 with mitred planted mouldings and arabesque frieze around top

Correct C13 style tall N arcade with pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders, and circular pillars with moulded caps. ¾ pillars as imposts

Good figure brass in central aisle before chancel arch, 1592 to John Kent and wife

Stained glass by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, E window (1896), chancel SW (1883) N aisle E (1897).