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St Bartholomew

Much Marcle

Herefordshire

C13 to C15, restored 1876 - 8.

Architectural Features

Nave: 4-light C15 west window with transom in 2-centred head with label and stops

C13 west doorway in 2-centred double chamfered arch

three C14 north aisle windows have two lights with cinquefoil heads under 2-centred arches

C15 east window of south side of south aisle has three trefoil-headed lights under a 2-centred head with label, restored 3-light window with intersecting tracery to east of south porch and to its west a 2-light cinquefoiled window like those in north aisle.

Tower is late C15 of dressed sandstone in three stages with crenellated parapet, two waterspouts to north and south faces, angle buttresses to east corners, bell-chamber with 2-light openings and trefoiled heads to each face

first stage has trefoil-headed light to north and south each under label with Tudor arch profile

its east window and general massing forms a pair with those of the chancel when viewed from the east: two late C13 matching 3-light windows with 2-centred arches and labels separated by a central buttress and each flanked by an outer buttress

The south wall of the chancel has a large C15 window with three trefoil-headed lights

to the left a 2-light late C13 or early C14 trefoiled window over an early C18 priests' door with a segmental pediment, moulded architrave and scrolled brackets.

South porch has one early C14 trefoiled ogee-headed opening in the west and east walls, a moulded entrance arch and angle buttresses

the exquisite mid-C14 altar tomb and effigy of Blanche Mortimer, wife of Sir Peter Grandison has canted chest and coved canopy with drapery spilling over the cinquefoiled panels of the chest.

Two chest tombs with effigies: one c1400 and the other for Sir John Kyrle died 1650 and several marble C19 wall monuments.

Stained glass by C E Kempe in chancel and north chapel, c1877-89.

Nave has C13 circular piers and chamfered arches

the capitals are richly carved, some with foliage and heads.

In the south wall of the south aisle is a C13 piscina with three pointed arches and a square drain.

Font is C13 with tapering bowl surrounded by three raised bands as if derived from a wooden, band-reinforced tub font.

In north arcade C14 oak effigy of bearded man.