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St Mary

Habberley

Shropshire

C12 fabric, restored and partly re- built c.1864.

Architectural Features

Uncoursed limestone and quartzite rubble with limestone and sandstone ashlar dressings, machine tile roof.

One 3-light late C16 mullion window to south wall of chancel

C12 south doorway with plain recessed arch and tympanum, north doorway similar but narrower, both restored

prominent stepped buttresses at south-east and south-west corners probably C17 Interior: late C19 arch-braced roof in 5 bays

most of other fittings and furnishings also date to 1864 restoration, although some late C17 panelling was re-used in nave at this time, stained glass in east and west windows of 1868 and 1883 respectively

C12 font with incised rim moulding is said to have been re-cut in 1766 and placed on its present pedestal in 1864

a board commemorating benefactions to the poor of the parish hangs in the vestry, no monuments of note.

Formerly a chapelry of Worthen, Habberley probably became an independent parish during C12.