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St Mary

Architectural Features

C15 remodelling.

Round west tower, probably late C11, divided into stages by three stone bands.

Above, a corbel table surmounted by a C15 embattled parapet of flushwork chequering.

C15 south porch with angle buttresses to gable.

Above the door a seated figure in a semi-circular headed niche with decorated engaged shafts and roll-moulded and decorated arch.

North-west bay of chancel has C15 2-light window flanked by blocked circular openings.

Four-bay north clerestorey of C14 quatrefoil lights with red brick arches.

North aisle has two 2-light C13 'Y' tracery windows and, at the north-west corner, a fine north doorway with billet hood mould and shaft, scallop and roll-moulded arches

Interior: north arcade of five bays: the arches of bays 1, 3 and 5 have a triple chamfer with no imposts, bays 2 and 4 have plain arches with imposts, possibly C12.

Chancel arch early C14, quadrant moulded with half-shafts.

C14 double piscina in south-east corner of chancel.

In the north-east corner, a wall monument to C.Ashby, rector of Haddiscoe Head corbels for lenten veil in mid north and south walls.

C17 memorial slabs set in nave floor.

Octagonal font, C15, possibly re-cut, with angels and the signs of the Evangelists around the bowl and four lions around the stem.

Fragments of wall paintings: a C14 St. Christopher on the north wall of nave, with half a painted consecration cross.