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St Mary Parish Church Of St Mary The Virgin

Lower Morton

Gloucestershire

C12 origins, altered in C14, C15

Architectural Features

C16.

Restored 1848 by Francis Niblett West tower circa 1540 Nave, north

south aisles, 2 storey south porch (all late C15).

Chancel circa 1340 and south (Stafford) chapel, late C14.

C14 doorway, 2 centred arch

South door: Heavily rstored transitional/Norman arch with dogtooth, on Early English shafts with stiff-leaf capitals.

Norman/Transitional north door with roll moulds.

Perpendicular pulpit approached by Victorian stair.

Norman/Transitional front.

Victorian glass by Thomas Willement, 1840's and 1850's.

Monuments.

North chancel, Sir John Stafford 1624.

Brass in chancel to Tyndalls, 1571, only wife's survive.

South chapel, in Perpendicular recess is 1648 to Roger Fowke.

Other C17 and C18 tablets in the aisles, especially John Atwells, 1729.

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