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St Mary

St Mary

Tarrant Rushton

Dorset

Parish church, early C12 origin

Architectural Features

nave extended late C12

early C14 chancel, transepts and small west tower

C15 porch

C14 3-light west window with reticulated tracery.

North transept: reset C13 lancet west

C14 pointed, 2-light window

C15 east window with square head and Perpendicular tracery under a label with stops in the form of grotesque masks.

C14 north window with pointed head, 2 lights and reticulated tracery

restored, pointed east window with reticulated tracery: South transept: square-headed, C15, 3-light east window with Perpendicular tracery and label with King and bishop stops

South face of tower bears carved stone cross.

Interior features: restored C12 round headed chancel arch of one plain order

C14 pointed transept arches of 2 chamfered orders, the innermost dying into the responds

C17 north transept roof of 3 arch-braced collar trusses with apex pendants springing from carved timber brackets

chancel arch flanked by C14 pierced stone hagioscopes

C14 Decorated niche and piscina in chancel

C16 south doorway has reused C12 sculptured lintel of Angus Dei with seated figures

C20 pews and pulpit

wall monument of 1765 to Richard Lawrence rector.