St Mary

stair-turret, C12-C13 chancel, early C14 south arcade, later C14 north arcade, C14-C15 aisles, clerestory and top stage to tower.

North chapel rebuilt 1670-71 for Anderson family.

Tower of roughly-coursed limestone rubble, herringbone rubble and squared limestone with ashlar dressings, stair-turret of large dressed stones, including re-used Roman gritstone

C13 lancet and pointed chamfered door to south, C13 pointed 3-light east window, re-set in 1871, with geometric tracery, hood-mould and headstops.

crocketed ogee-arched niche above with figures of Madonna and child beneath gable with finial and gargoyles.

Restored C14 pointed wave- moulded inner arch of 2 orders with hood-mould.

Image bracket to north-east pier with carved head and upraised arms.

Anglo-Saxon carved interlace stone re-set beneath south-west pier

Fine C14 monument to Redford family on north side of chancel has chest-tomb beneath arched opening with adjoining doorway to north chapel, with cusped panelling to 4-centred arches, hood-moulds with ballflower ornament and large headstops, ashlar chest-tomb with carved side panels bearing coats of arms in cusped fields, and re-set late C14 - early C15 alabaster effigies of knight and lady.

Below is a fine late C14 brass (also probably to Redford family) with large figures of knight and lady holding hearts, he with lion at feet, she with a hound, beneath a crocketed ogee canopy, with indents for former side canopies, shields and flanking shafts.

Anderson chapel contains fine alabaster and black marble standing wall monument of 1671 to Sir Edmund Anderson and other members of Anderson family, attributed to Jasper Latham: semi-reclining full-size figure in contemporary costume with book, on chest-tomb with oval inscribed tablets in pilastered elliptically-arched surrounds with ornate carved festoons, ribbons etc above.

Fine alabaster wall tablet above to Sir Edmund Anderson of 1676 with inscribed oval panel flanked by open scrolls, carved swags and arms below and cornice above carrying flaming lamps and scrolled pediment with bust.

Re-set against chapel south wall: section of Cl0-Cll stone with carved interlace and cable moulding, probably part of former cross-shaft

C13 ashlar tomb-slab with cross in relief.

Ornate oak chancel screen of 1892, C19 font.

The knight effigy, reputed to be that of Sir Henry Redford of Castlethorpe (d1404), was removed from an earlier north chapel when the Anderson monument was built, and replaced another effigy on the chancel chest-tomb.

H and J Taylor, Anglo-Saxon Architecture, 1965 , vol 1, p 115-116.