St Mary

Uncoursed limestone rubble: gabled nave roof of sheet lead, and chancel roof of old and C20 tiles

East lancet window of 1875: 2-bay chancel side walls have C13 pointed lancets, and C16 light to south and C13 trefoil-headed light to north

2-bay south wall of nave has central C13 pointed chamfered blocked doorway flanked by C13 pointed lancets: two early C16 two- and 3-light round-arched clerestory windows

North wall: C13 lancet to east, C13 finial pointed chamfered doorway to C19 door

mid C19 timber porch has reset C15 oak archway to front

Interior: chancel has C13 piscina with foliate-carved credence shelf, C13 aumbry and mid C19 tile floor and benches

Jacobean pulpit has stylised tulips set within blind arches

C15 octagonal font on shelf

Seven C17/C18 benches to north, similar C19 benches to south

Heavy C15 oak posts strengthened by ogee scissor braces rise to support the belfry which is probably early C16 (dating from insertion of clerestory). Early C16 four-bay Perpendicular screens, originally rood screen moved to flank belfry posts at west end. (V.M. Howse, Lyford: A Parish Record, pp.12-17