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St Mary

Reed

Hertfordshire

Early C11

Architectural Features

Chancel rebuilt mid C14

Tower of C13 or C14 raised with other alterations in C15

To N on nave a blocked doorway of C11 or early C12: crudely executed round arched surround, broadly roll moulded outer face to inner archivolt, clunch tympanum, continuous splayed abaci, inner shafted jambs with incised voluted capitals, square cut outer order

Flanking restored C15 2 light windows, rectilinear tracery in square heads with hollow moulded surrounds

Inner entrance is a C14 pointed arch, double wave moulded, hood mould with foliate stops, to right a semi-octagonal stoup, an early plank door with iron strap hinges and lock plate

Chancel N and S C14 2 light windows towards nave with foiled and cusped pointed heads, restored to N and remade to S in C19

Interior: C15 pointed tower arch, 2 chamfered orders dying into jambs

In N jamb of tower arch a C14 recess with an outer ogee arch

Font has a C15 octagonal bowl with carved rosettes and shields on splayed lower faces, C20 square panelled stem

Early C17 communion table with bulbous turned legs

On SW wall of nave a lead memorial with a low relief allegorical figure, to T. Cherry, Church Warden, and W. Mowbray, Plumber, 1807. (East Herts Archaeological Society Transactions, vol.2, part 3, 1904, p.261:

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