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St Mary

St Mary

Tarrant Keyneston

Dorset

Parish church, C12 chancel, C13 nave

Architectural Features

refenestration, porch and further refenestration C15, tower

nave roof early C16.

Nave and chancel have mainly C13 2-light, trefoiled windows.

South chancel wall has a blocked C12 doorway with a rebuilt, pointed head.

The south nave wall has a C13 chamfered, pointed doorway, now blocked.

C16 wagon roof with arched braced trusses and chamfered wall-plates to nave

late C17 communion rails with turned balusters

C17 panelling reset as dado in chancel

altar flanked by 2 reset C13 coffin lids

other C13 coffin lids reused in other parts of the church

C17 octagonal pulpit with 2 levels of panelling and chip carved guilloche frieze

pews of reused C17 moulded panelling

early C14 wall paintings one set depicting acts of St Margaret of Antioch and another an allegory of three living and three dead plus other smaller fragments

2 medieval piscinae

C16 square font on square pedestal with C16 pyramidal timber cover

reset medieval chancels with slip decoration in chancel

some C15 glass.

A very unspoilt church retaining many medieval features.