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St Mary

Great Shelford

Cambridgeshire

TL 4551, 19/62 GREAT SHELFORD, CHURCH STREET (north side), Church of St. Mary 31.8.62 I Parish church of C12 and C14 origins

Architectural Features

almost completely rebuilt in early C15 by Reverend Thomas Patesley, d. 1411.

The south porch, C15, has a parish room above.

Moulded labels with mask stops, some of angels.

The nave roof is C15 and of alternating tie beam and hammer-beam construction.

Above the chancel arch is a C15 wall painting of the Doom.

In the south aisle is a C14 piscina with trefoil arch opening.

The pulpit is 1636, oak.

There are early C17 wall monuments in the north

south walls of the chancel and a brass to Thomas Patesley, d. 1411 in the chancel floor.