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St Mary

St Mary

Netherbury

Dorset

Parish Church, C14 nave and aisles, with C14/15 chancel, C15 west tower.

Architectural Features

Chancel: 2 bays, 2 C15 windows to south and a 4-light C15 west window.

North aisle with C15 buttresses to C14 masonry, and C15 windows.

C14 east window of 3 trefoiled ogee lights in a square head.

Fittings: Font, Purbeck marble, square bowl with arched panels and simple foliage spanrels on top.

Central, and four subsidiary shafts with moulded capping and base, late C12.

Pulpit: c.

1630, 7-sided, with fluted Corinthian corners on corbelled-out lion-mask plinths.

More Monument, south aisle, late as, canopied tomb of alabaster.

Tomb Chest has 6 bays, each with angel holding a blank shield under an ogee crocketted arch.

Wall-monuments: to Peter Brice, vicar, 1740 (chancel).

To H. Saunders MA., vicar, 1673, stone and marble tablet with Ionic side columns, entablature, cresting and achievement-of-arms.

Piscina: south aisle, with moulded jambs, trefoiled head and round drain, C13.