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St Mary

St Mary

Upper Heyford

Oxfordshire

C15, and 1867 by Talbot Bury incorporating C14 and C15 elements

Architectural Features

Welsh-slate, sheet-metal, and concrete plain-tile roofs

C15 rubble tower, with diagonal buttresses and moulded plinth and strings, has a moulded Tudor-arched west doorway below a 3-light Perpendicular window, and has arched 2-light bell-chamber openings with Perpendicular tracery, below a crenellated parapet which formerly had corner pinnacles

buttresses carry the arms of New College Oxford and its Warden at the time of building (c.1465). Interior: Chancel incorporates a C14 piscina with a cusped head, a C14 recess containing the effigy of a priest, and a cartouche of arms, now forming the base of a missal stand

Responds of chancel arch, and east respond and first capital of 3-bay nave arcade, have vigorously-carved capitals with naturalistic grapes, corn, and other vegetation

C15 tower arch has inner shafts with octagonal capitals plus a wide casement moulding

Numerous late-C17 and early-C18 ledgers, mostly to members of the Myrry family

C19 stained glass in east window.