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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Henbury

Bristol

Church. C1200 nave and lower tower, early C13 upper tower, chancel and S chapel.

Architectural Features

Late Norman doorways to S and N, much restored Early English nave, chancel and tower, Perpendicular Gothic Revival-style nave windows.

inside is an important early C13 segmental-arched doorway with moulded doorway reveals, a stilted arch on attached shafts and trumpet capitals and outer moulded reveal, and a small trefoil-headed niche with crockets

corner gargoyles and a C19 parapet of coursed Lias

C13 piscina has a cavetto-moulded arch forming a cusp at the top, in a semicircular arch on attached shafts and bell capitals

C19 east bay and good C13 respond corbels at the W end, either side of the triple-chamfered arch to the tower, with no capitals and widely splayed reveals

octagonal black marble font 1806

C19 round, stone pulpit, with pointed and trefoil panels

brass eagle lecturn

MEMORIALS: C17, C18 and C19 monuments include a wall monument to Robert Southwell, d. 1633, a marble panel and curved obelisk with child's heads, shield and urn finial

wall monument to ? Elizabeth Cromwell, d. 1674, by Grinling Gibbons, a wide sarcophagus with a gadrooned top, and an obelisk under a baldacchino with wide drapes held by putti

wall monument to Edward Capel, d. 1681, an oval panel in a scrolled surround with swag, winged cherubs and a shield

wall monument to Edward Sampson, d. 1695, a panel with flowers and gadrooned base, apron with a shield and winged skull, and a segmental pediment with cherubs and an urn

wall monument to Edward Southwell, d. 1705, a black panel, apron and sides with rocaille, and an obelisk with garlands and finial

wall monument to John Astrey, d. 1712, an aedicule with fluted Corinthian pilasters, rocaille apron and a top with cherubs to a foliated shield

wall monument to Christopher Cole, d. 1736, a marble aedicule with a swept top above the entablature

wall monument, inscription lost, with a sarcophagus bearing a rotund urn, backed by an obelisk with swag and a cartouche

wall monument to John Sampson d. 1753, a pedimented panel in coloured marble with bracketed sides and an apron, and an obelisk with swag and palm leaves

wall monument to Mary Teast, d. 1766, by Drewett 1790, a marble panel with fluted sides and slate obelisk with relief of a female figure leaning on a vase

wall monument to Catherine Lewis, d. 1782, a pointed-arched panel flanked by urns on a slate background

wall monument to Edward Sampson, d. 1795, a panel with apron and shield, and acroteria to an obelisk with a draped urn

wall monument to Catherine Cave, d. 1836, a bowed panel to an obelisk with a bowl of flowers and a dove and clouds in relief.