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St Mary The Virgin

Wansford

Cambridgeshire

5141 WANSFORD BRIDGE END (west side) Church of St Mary The Virgin TL 0799 45/673 19.3.62 I GV 2.

Architectural Features

Saxon window in west end of nave.

Nave has south doorway of circa 1200 with 2 orders of shafts and round arch.

C17 rectangular south nave windows with label and 4-centred arch lights and south porch with moulded round arch and impost and with date 1663 in moulded panel above arch.

C13 unbuttressed west tower of 3 stops, with lancets in first end second stage, and 2-light bell-openings with separating shaft.

Early C14 stone broach spire with lucarnes and dog tooth frieze.

Interior: early C15 2 bay north arcade with quatrefoil section piers and quatrefoil and octagonal abaci with nailhead decoration, and with double-chamfered round arches.

Good circa 1120 Norman font found at Sibberton Lodge in Thornhaugh parish.

Cylindrical bowl with vine scroll above arcading with figures depicting baptism, 2 figures holding books and knights fighting etc in relief, the stem is modern.

The pulpit and sedilia have Jacobean panels.