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St Bridget

Architectural Features

1300 (chancel), C14

C15.

possibly reset C12 window on west wall.

South doorway is mid C12: single columns with scalloped capitals, inner roll-moulding and thick roll-moulded arched

the reredos is C19 but the frame is late C15 or C16, rectangular, decorated with fleurons and a crested top, the centre of which forms a canopy which rises above the window sill

stone dado of the rood screen survives with a mortised sill beam for the screen.

Pulpit: C19, wooden polygonal top on an ashlar base

Font: probably C12 but recut

C17 top.

Pews: the front of the south nave pews is dated 1621/W.G. (William Gregory, Rector), panelled with a foliage frieze

the south chapel has 7 coarsely cut mediaeval benches, some retaining lozenge-shaped poppy heads and at the west end is the Tynte family pew, Jacobean, a panelled front with a foliage frieze and urn finials, the door has double S-shaped hinges, a high back with blank arcading, an enriched frieze and a moulded cornice

4 further coarsely cut mediaeval benches to west end of south side of nave

wall painting, on the north chancel wall, of a ragged cross with a circle.

late C15 reversed pane of glass bearing arms

fragments of C14 yellow glass as symbols of the Evangelists.

013 and C15 fragments, including the head of Christ and a tonsured head of a male saint with roses, crowns and borderwork.

Monument: incised Purbeck slab to a knight, reset in the south chapel, probably 1250-1270.