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St. Mary

Bucklebury

Berkshire

Mainly C12 and C15 with C19 chancel

Architectural Features

Flint, tile, rubble and Ferricrete with Bath stone dressings, rendered chancel

old tile roofs separately over nave and aisle with two dormers on south side of nave, one to left hipped with three-light casement, one to right of two Gothick lights with Y-tracery

Two stages with plinth, diagonal buttresses to west, string course, corbel table with carved gargoyles, coped parapet and four corner obelisks with ball finials and weathervanes

newel turret on first stage to north with lean-to old tile roof

West doorway with four-centered moulded arch in square head, quatrefoils carved in spandrels and hoodmould with uncarved shields as stops, three-light west window above with panelled tracery and hoodmould with spiral stops

Crucifixion, and man with wheel carved on south-east buttress, small circular two-light opening high up on north face

Nave: C12 semi-circular arched doorway off-centre to left, of one order with one plain and one twisted shaft, scalloped capitals, dog tooth and other ornament, and crowned at apex with carved face, orb and Maltese cross

Chancel: central C13 style arched doorway to south with boarded door, flanked by two lancets

Three-light east window with panelled tracery and hoodmould with carved stops

central blocked four-centered arched doorway with carved spandrels and modern inscription, carved stone above with weathered stone canopy

C19 pebbledashed vestry with planted timbers and hipped tile roof to north of tower

three bay C15 north nave arcade with chamfered arches, four bay crownpost roof

box pews, C17 octagonal pulpit with guilloche ornament around panelling and tester, west galley of circa 1824, six hatchments, coat of arms above chancel arch, four panels with creed and commandments of circa early C19 in north aisle

C19 chamfered arch with half octagonal piers, moulded bases and capitals and hoodmoulds with carved stops, C19 arch braced roof, Squire's pew to north, Cl7 communion rails with twisted balusters, and some old armour

Glass in north aisle and Chancel by Brangwyn of 1912

Monuments include

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