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St Mary

St Mary

Aylburton

Gloucestershire

Mainly C13, a chapel of C1500, restorations of C19 including late C19 rebuild of spire.

Architectural Features

Tower of C13 in 4 stages with crenellation, and rebuilt octagonal spire with roll mould arrises, heavy buttresses in 2 stages, bold string courses at each stage, bold stair turret north side in 3 stages

C13 doorway, C19 door with strap hinges and rail head, under a cusped niche with a C20 figure of Christ, cusped lancets in stages 2 and 3 and twin cusped belfry openings

Lychgate and church, which is mostly 13th Century though the spire was rebuilt in the 19th Century.

South aisle has 3-light lancets, the central one cusped and under continuous moulded string with leaf stops, south side 2 tall lancets and one 4-light C15 window, east end a 3-light C13 plate tracery window

Lychgate and church, which is mostly 13th Century though the spire was rebuilt in the 19th Century.

© Eirian Evans

wide north aisle, north door to segmental pointed moulded head and to its right a pointed arch to holy water stoup, the 4-light window a 1914-1918 memorial, the east end has arch in two orders with shafts on high plinths and double-ware mould, 5 steps give access to Bledisloe Chapel with 4-light north and 3-light east Tudor windows with interesting C20 glass to Arthur Henry Bathurst The east window represents the Franz Josef Glacier, Waiho, New Zealand.

A stone floor, and arch braced roof, to south a moulded segmental-headed opening with plain glass and a 4-centred opening with responds, caps and double chamfer.

The chapel contains 12 Bathurst memorials, dating from 1754 to 1979, and hatchment with the Bathurst motto 'TIEN TA FOY'.

Monuments: in the tower a series of upright ledger slabs of C17

C18, some badly worn, various memorials elsewhere of C18 and C19, including tablet by William Paty, and C14 stone effigy of a lady carrying a heart.

Perpendicular octagonal font with Tudor rose in quatrefoils to square panels.