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St Mary

St Mary

Buckland

Oxfordshire

Early C12 nave

Architectural Features

The early C12 north doorway has a hood mould with saltire crosses and two orders of shafts with scalloped capitals

Two early C12 lancets, similar taller south doorway has original studded door with broad crescent hinges

The C13 south porch rebuilt with statue of Virgin Mary in 1890

South wall of nave has one early C15 three-light window, with carved heads to hood mould terminals

also an early C12 lancet and a sundial dated 1741

Interior: Stained glass of east window by Henry Holiday (1919), other stained glass in chancel is late C19

5 early C14 heraldic shields reset in wood frames beneath south windows

Piscina in south wall has alabaster carving depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds, part of a C17 Italian reredos