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St Mary

St Mary

Swerford

Oxfordshire

Late C13. and C15, restored and enlarged 1846 by H.J. Underwood

Architectural Features

Slated chancel has a traceried east window of 1859 in a Perpendicular opening and has, to south, 2 blocked C15 windows, and a 2-light square-headed window with ogee tracery and a low transom, below which are 4 small ogee-treaded lights

rubble walls and low buttresses may be C13

Parapetted ashlar nave has a Decorated south doorway, with continuous moulding and ballflower ornament plus an old plank door, sheltered by a late C14 porch with parapet, large gargoyles and a sundial

North clerestory has 2 small C16 windows

Late C13 ashlar 3-stage tower, with shallow buttresses to the first stage, has cusped lancets to south and, in the top stage, has cusped 2-light bell-chamber openings with transoms

broach spire, rising from a cornice with gargoyles at the angles, is probably slightly later

Interior: late C14 chancel arch

C15 panelled font

Chancel floor, of black and white marble, may be late C17 and includes many C18 ledgers

Wall monuments in chancel to Jones family (mid C18) in an architectural surround with triangular pediment, and to the Travell family (erected 1775) with a garlanded urn

Fragments of medieval stained glass in tracery lights of south windows