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St Mary and St James

St Mary And St James

Hazelbury Bryan

Dorset

Mainly C15, chancel rebuilt in 1827 and general restoration 1895 and early C20.

Architectural Features

C15 work for the de Bryan family.

South aisle and chapel have embattled parapets with string course and gargoyles.

Embattled south porch has 2-centred doorway with continuously moulded jambs and label, string course with gargoyles.

Chancel has C15 piscina with reset window tracery and table on carved head corbel below.

North aisle has canopied niches with figures depicting the Annunciation by Sir Charles Nicholson of 1919 as is the nearby Calvary filling a reconstructed sedilia.

ST7508 : Hazlebury Bryan, St. Mary and St. James's Church: The nave showing the position of the 1782 pulpit

Pulpit by Ben Lidford, dated 1782.

ST7508 : Hazlebury Bryan, St. Mary and St. James's Church: The nave showing the position of the 1782 pulpit

© Michael Garlick

2 finely carved 'decorated' corbels reset in south chapel.

Nave and north aisle have C15 wagon roofs.

Late C12 octagonal font of Purbeck marble with blind panels on cylindrical pedestal surrounded by eight shafts on octagonal base. "RCBM, Dorset, vol III" p 105 - 107, no 1.