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St Mary

Dudleston

Shropshire

Medieval fabric enlarged 1819, chancel rebuilt 1877 and whole extensively restored 1884-90.

Architectural Features

machine tile roofs with coped verges (several stepped) and ornamental cresting.

Principal feature is late C15 arch-braced collar beam roof in 6 bays to nave with cusped struts, to cusped principal rafters forming quatrefoil and trefoil patterns

Fittings and furnishings including benches, choir stalls, encaustic tiles in chancel and pulpit made up from Jacobean panelling, all late C19 except panelled octagonal font and medieval oak dug-out chest at west end of nave.

Stained glass: painted armorial glass of 1819 in window above doorway to tower and mixed with early C20 glass in aisles and transepts.

East window by Kempe in memory of Cicely Caroline Mary Chapman Monuments.

Late C18 and early C19 wall tablets and memorials to local families in chancel and aisle and 2 small brass plates of 1756 and 1763 on east wall of south transept.

Late C18 hatchment on south wall of south transept and late C18 royal coat-of-arms over west doorway.