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St Mary

St Mary

Leighterton

Gloucestershire

C13 with early C14 north aisle

Architectural Features

C13 pointed-arched south doorway with chamfered archivolt and hoodmould

C13 or early C14 bellcote surmounts parapet gable at east end of nave, having octagonal conical top on 4 supporting stone posts, those to east and west being bracketed out from base

grotesque carved head at each corner of base.

Parapet- gabled west end with large early-mid C14 three-light window having intersecting tracery and hoodmould.

Nave dominated by early C14 three-bay aisle arcade with octagonal piers.

Chamfered archivolt to plain C13 chancel arch with single corbel above and to left.

Royal arms painted over chancel arch are of William after death of Mary, but initials and date overpainted to read: 'A.R. 1702'.

Early C17 chancel rail with turned balusters.

Octagonal stone font of c1300 with panelled sides and pedestal with attached clustered column shafts.

Three C15 pews at west end of nave have crude ball flower-decorated ends and are all that survive from complete set known to exist c1900.