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Architectural Features

C15

West tower, probably late C14 for Thomas de Lyons (Lyon arms are over the west window)

3 stages, the lowest one is ashlar, with diagonal buttresses, and embattled parapet with pinnacles and gargoyles

west door in a pointed and moulded surround, hoodmould with carved head stops

ogee-hollow-ogee moulded doorway under a hoodmould with carved head stops.

south doorway has hoodmould with carved head stops.

two defaced late C13 effigies, one to Willum de Snoudune, 1280.

Pulpit, C19 in a Perpendicular style, ashlar, hexagonal.

Font, restored

Screens across the nave and aisle: very high quality, probably late C15: 2-light divisions to the aisles, 3-lights.to the nave, all with perpendicular style tracery

Glass: south chancel window has a late C15/early C16 set of figures of the Four Doctors

other fragments. includes figures of ecclesiastics, knights and ladies, roses and a winged lion.

Monuments.

North or Lady Chapel: Sir Richard Choke and his wife, died 1486

2 recumbent figures (he in the robes of the Lord Chief Justice) with their heads supported by angels

the back has angels holding the Choke arms

the top has 5 hanging, cusped ogee gables with angels bearing arms.

south side, Hugh 1690 and Elizabeth 1715 (formerly signed by George Townsend of Bristol), baroque, inscribed marble panels, fluted pilasters, armorial bearings flanked by putti, surmounted by segmental pediment and urns

South aisle: set in a recess at the west end is an ashlar tomb chest with quatrefoils set in the sides, probably late C15/early C16

Chancel: 3 elaborate Gothic style monuments to the Smyth family, alabaster and marble, to Sir John 1849, Dame Emily 1914 and Sir John Henry 1901.