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St. Mary

East Ilsley

Berkshire

C13 with C19 additions and C15, C17 and C19 restorations

Architectural Features

Nave, chancel, west tower and south aisle C13

Interior: plastered walls, Chancel: tall crown post roof of two bays, two lancets with wide rear arches to north and south walls, lancet and oculus to east wall aumbry under segmental pointed arch with chevron carving to north wall

Chancel arch: four-centred arch with double chamfer springing from carved, heads at corbels

Nave: tall crown post roof of three bays, three bay arcade to south of chamfered pointed arches on short columns with moulded bases and simple caps, small grotesque head carved at springing of eastern arch, three bay arcade to north of four-centred arches on slender piers

Tower arch: two centred arch with moulded soffit and 1625 carved on south impost

Fittings: C17 communion rail of alternating twisted and turned balusters with moulded rail

hexagonal C17 pulpit with carved panels

font in north aisle stone-bowl with nine sided top and carved arcade set on C20 stone base.

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