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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Cardington

Bedfordshire

N and S chapels have 5 Norman gargoyles reset below parapets

Architectural Features

S doorways of nave and S chapel, and N windows of N chapel, are C15, the latter heavily restored

The S nave arcade reuses 2 C13 capitals

Tower arch has some re- tooled C12 voussoir stones

Otherwise, building dates mainly from 1897-1901 and is in C15 style with embattled parapets

Interior: E bay of both chancel arcades taken up by canopied C16 tombs with elaborate carving and archways to chapels

N one has brass to Sir William Gascoigne (controller of Wolsey's household) d,1540 and his 2 wives

S one, originally a Gascoigne tomb, was appropriated for, and has brass of 1638 to Sir Jarrate Hervey and his wife Dorothy

N transept has monument to Whitbread family

N. Chapel has plain wall monument to Henrietta Howard d.l765, with brief inscription to husband John Howard, philanthropist and prison reformer, d. 1790

Black basalt Wedgwood font on tapering square fluted pillar, given 1783 by Harriet Whitbread