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St Mary The Virgin

Northill

Bedfordshire

Mainly C14, with some C15 details and some late C19 reworking including most window tracery

Architectural Features

C15 windows to first and second bays, C14 door to third bay, C14 window to fourth bay

C14 W window

2 storeyed, the vaulting and parvis added C15

Vaulting is in 2 bays, with 3 carved bosses, one showing the arms of Sir John Trailly

W tower: 3 stages, top stage C15

Interior: mid-late C19 font

C19 rood screen includes some C15 work, as do the choir stalls, and the parvis stair door

Chancel roof is C19, but nave roof, in 4 bays with strutted crown posts and plain aisle roofs, may date back to C14

N aisle has wall monument to John Harvey, d.1793, by T King of Bath, showing oval with inscription beside draped urn

S aisle has 3 large panels of stained glass of 1664 by John Oliver

Originally formed E window, depicting Royal arms of Charles II in the central light, flanked by the arms of the Grocers' Company and of Margaret Slaney

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