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St Mary

St Mary

Upper Swell

Gloucestershire

C12 origins and fabric.

Architectural Features

Early C13 chancel

C15

early C16 remodelling of nave.

nave has 3-light flat head c.1500 window to south with moulded surround and label.

Early C15 porch with diagonal buttresses and original trussed rafter roof shelters Norman doorway with chevron outer order and flat, keeled roll, tympanum (defaced), volute caps to nook shafts.

Interior: Arch braced collar trusses to nave C15

Norman chancel arch with outer order of hollow chevron and inner order on scalloped corbel caps.

Marble wall monument to the Rev Henry Brown, died 1795, by C Peart of London, oval cartouche with urn and drapes.

A 15th-century font and a plain bench end in the light of late-summer evening.

Font: Octagonal C15 chalice type with tracery panelling.

A 15th-century font and a plain bench end in the light of late-summer evening.

© John Sutton