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St Mary

Credenhill

Herefordshire

C12 nave, chancel arch C1200, chancel 1300, C14 west tower, C15 south porch, restoration of 1861 and 1876.

Architectural Features

The north wall retains a C13 lancet and a late C13 window of two trefoil-headed lights and trefoil.

Chancel: early C14 trefoil-headed light to left, C14 ogee-headed light and early C14 window of two trefoil-headed lights with trefoil to right of re-set c1200 semi-circular headed doorway.

North wall retains an early C14 window of two trefoil-headed lights with quatrefoil partly obscured by the C19 vestry.

East window: mid-C14 three trefoiled ogee-headed lights with flowing tracery.

INTERIOR: Nave: C13 three-bay roof with intermediate trusses, main trusses have collars and moulded tie beams with inclined struts

C13 two-centred arch of two chamfered orders, outer continuous, plain impost to inner, flanked by C19 cusped openings (possibly pierced side altars).

Fittings: Font dated 1667 with inscription, the gift of John Squier of Colford, moulded base and stem, cylindrical bowl with fluting and rosettes, bread and reel mouldings below capping.

Monuments: Cholmeley memorial wall monument 1669 broken-segmental pediment supported on Ionic columns commemorates John Cholmeley, Armiger.

Stained glass: fragment of C14, figure of bishop and figure of archbishop in south-west window of chancel, possibly St Thomas of Canterbury and St Thomas of Hereford, further fragments in north-east window of nave.