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St Mary

St Mary

Hurley

Buckinghamshire

C12, altered C15, restored 1852 by Hakewill

Architectural Features

Flint, chalk, Caen stone, tile, coped gabled roof

north side: four round-headed C12 windows with original splayed inner jambs

South side: six round-headed C12 windows similar to those on the north wall

West end: round-headed doorway: C12, much restored, two orders, the outer order having elaborate chevron enrichment, and carried upon shafted jambs with scalloped capitals and quirked chamfered abaci, C19 hood mould

Above the doorway is a C19 round-headed window with C12 jambs

On the apex of the gable is a wooden bell turret with louvred sides and a tile hipped roof surmounted with a cross

Chancel, north side: three C12 round-headed windows with original splayed inner jambs

These may be C12 but have C19 external stonework

South side: three windows, the two easternmost similar to those in the north wall and the third is early C14 with two trefoiled ogee lights with reticulated tracery under a pointed head

Interior: fine early C15 octagonal font tapering towards the bottom with sides of traceried panelling with small buttresses at the angles

Monuments: against the north wall of the chancel is an early C17 monument to John Lovelace of Ladye Place, d. 1558, and his wife d. 1579

At the foot are two male figures dressed in Elizabethan costume.