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St James The Elder

Little Sodbury

Gloucestershire

Rebuilt C14, altered C15

Architectural Features

C16 and restored in 1865.

corner jamb shafts with carved capitals, minstrels to the north, grotesque beasts to the south

Nave: 3 bay C14 arcade, cylindrical piers with octagonal caps

Remains of ashlar rood stair with 4-centre doorways, one of which leads to an enriched Jacobean pulpit on a C15 panelled, vase-shaped base.

Font: C12, recut in C17

panelled octagonal bowl on circular base, C17 cover.

In the chancel is a pillar piscina with a carved capital and an octagonal shaft.

Glass: reassembled mediaeval fragments in the east window of the north chapel.

Monuments.

William Paston, died c.1673, baroque, grey and white marbles, segmental pediment, winged cherubic heads, gadrooned base

Nave: Baron de Tuyll, 1913, by W.C.H. King, Art Nouveau plaque, female figures to sides of anurn.

Hatchment in tower.

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