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St Mary

Kyre

Worcestershire

C12, with early C14 and circa 1700 additions

Architectural Features

Nave: C12, west end has C14 chamfered doorway and above it is a C19 cusped lancet.

The date is carved on the apex of the outer truss.

the easternmost window is probably early C14 whilst the westernmost is C19.

South chapel: early C14 with unusually thick walls for its date.

Chancel: C12.

There are C14 diagonal buttresses at the east end and a three-light east window with reticulated tracery.

In the north elevation there is a cusped lancet at the western end and in the south elevation there is an early C14 window of two lights at the eastern end.

The wide, acutely pointed, early C14 arch from the nave into the chapel is of two chamfered orders

The roofs throughout are of the ashlared collar rafter type and of C14 date.

At the west end of the nave is a tie-beam truss, the tie-beam of which is moulded and supported on carved brackets.

The altar table has turned legs and dates from the C17 and the altar rails have turned balusters and are circa 1750.

The plain, circular font is C12 on a modern base and there is a C19 stone pulpit.

Both the nave and chancel have dados made up of C17 and C18 panelling and the chapel also has some C18 panelling attached to its south wall.

The thick oak pews are of C16 origin with C18 panelled ends.

In the chapel there is an oak bier dated 1682 with the initials "I S", a C15 helmet

a parish chest of possible C14 date carved out of a single log.

On the plastered jambs of the south-west window are remains of C14 wall paintings.

Memorials: the chancel has two marble monuments flanked by columns with broken segmental pediments and coats of arms above.

The easternmost one has spiral columns and commemorates Catherine Pytts, died 1702, and the westernmost commemorates Edward Pytts, died 1672.

There are also other memorials to members of the Pytts family, including a sarcophagus relief to Johnathan Pytts, died 1807.

On the south wall of the chapel is a tablet to Hugh Thomas, died 1693, and there is also a floor slab to Elizabeth Brockwale, died 1618, at the east end of the chapel.