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St Mary

St Mary

Chickerell

Dorset

C13 Chancel and Nave.

Architectural Features

Chancel: C13 3-light east window.

South wall, two C19 windows, and a blocked C13 doorway between with continuous chamfered jambs and 2-centred head.

Large C15 window, east of porch, of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a distorted 2-centred head.

Altered 2-light window, C14, west of porch.

Chancel-arch, late C13, rebuilt and widened, 2-centred and of 2 orders, inner hollow-chamfered, and the outer chamfered, with roll-moulded stops.

SY6480 : St. Mary, Chickerell: font

Fittings: Font, circular tub-shaped bowl with nearly straight sides, shallow band of fluted label-ornament under the rim, 3 incised lines bands of bead and interlace round the lower part, C12, on modern cylindrical stem.

SY6480 : St. Mary, Chickerell: font

© Basher Eyre

SY6480 : Date on pulpit, St Mary's Church, Chickerell

Pulpit, six-sided, oak with fluted and reeded styles, sides divided into 3 tiers.

SY6480 : Date on pulpit, St Mary's Church, Chickerell

© Becky Williamson

One panel carved with date and initials'1630 RW.IM'.

Monument: Purbeck marble slab with incised figure of priest, C15, cut--down and reset on modern corbels. (RCHM Dorset II, p.38 (1)).