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St Mary the Virgin

Architectural Features

Three-stage west tower, diagonal buttresses, pinnacles, embattled parapet, gargoyles, niches with figures, recessed stone spire with a band of blind arcading, 2-light bell-chamber windows with louvres

Nave with a crenellated parapet with pinnacles, gargoyles

Aisle parapets with blind foiled niches, similar continuing over porch, meeting room and north chapel, further gargoyles.

South porch with a shafted C13 door opening.

C15 wagon roof to nave with bosses

C17 tie-bean roof to chancel on angel corbels

C14 piscina with a cusped head

C19 stone reredos with a medieval tablet inset to each side.

Much woodwork the gift of the Fortesque family, particularly the 2-tiered arcaded screen with attached paired readers, obelisk finials, strapwork, heraldic shields, and set over all the coloured archievenent of Stuart arms in a carved frame with a cornice and strapwork cresting

ST5944 : Croscombe, St. Mary's Church: The Jacobean pulpit (detail)

pulpit with a sounding board of 1616

ST5944 : Croscombe, St. Mary's Church: The Jacobean pulpit (detail)

© Michael Garlick

many C17 box pews, further C15 pews with carved ends and poppy finials later altered to box pews.

3 futher C18 and 10 C19 monuments

2 brasses to Bisse family in south aisle of 1606 and 1625.

ST5944 : Croscombe, St. Mary's Church: The font

Octagonal lead-lined font, probably C14.

ST5944 : Croscombe, St. Mary's Church: The font

© Michael Garlick

Two C17 chairs and an elaborate chest.

C19 stained glass to chancel and under tower, east window of south aisle of 1925 though some medieval glass to sub-lights.