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St Mary

Therfield

Hertfordshire

1878 rebuilding of C14 church

Architectural Features

Leaded roofs with tiles on S porch

To S: 3 restored C14 windows all of 2 cusped lights with quatrefoil traceried pointed arched heads, that to left is taller having a transom near base

To N a single restored C14 2 light window with a quatrefoil head

Interior: double chamfered pointed chancel arch with semi-octagonal responds with caps and piers, carved stops to hood mould

4 bay nave arcades follow C14 model: 4 half columns with slender colonnettes in angles, moulded caps and bases, double chamfered pointed arches, hood moulds with carved stops

Short shafts in clerestorey to re-used C15 timber corbels, full figure angels, C19 roof with cusped bracing, re-used C15 timber bosses, also in aisle roofs

Chancel S wall has an early C14 reset double piscina, moulded arches, shafted jambs with moulded caps and bases, triple sedilia with cusped heads, C15 restored

Small recumbent figure with City of London crest on small stone, coffin slab with low relief cross, scroll brackets, pediments and angel corbels

Late C14 or C15 octagonal font in nave, broad base to plain shaft with broader octagonal bowl

C17 barley sugar communion rails with moulded hand rail

Octagonal pulpit with raised fielded panels, dentilled cornice

Royal Arms of Charles II over S entrance

Monuments: N aisle wall to Ann Horton, wife of F. Turner, d.1677, restored 1966

Cedar plaque with central epitaph, flanking figures of Time and Death in niches with enriched surrounds, raised panels, swags below, cornice with central open pediment holding blank cartouche and supporting reclining female figures with flanking urns

C17 and C18 initialed stones in chancel walls

Chancel SW window has fragments of C14 and C15 glass, pinnacled canopies and shields. (St

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