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St Mary

Architectural Features

tower, C14 south aisle and porch.

Roll moulded west door with hollow moulded hood set in C14 timber porch on flint base, with cusped bargeboard.

Heavily restored outer jambs of Chancel lancets and decorated style nave windows Exposed jambs of possible Anglo-Saxon north door, with C12 blocked round headed doorway set within.

Jambs of tall, possibly Anglo-Saxon north door.

C13 double chamfered arch to south west tower, with identical arch to south aisle (the arcade therefore a later rebuild of original C13 aisle openings).

Turned baluster altar rail c.700, and contemporary panelled pulpit.

Some late medieval/C17 panelling reused in dividing screens in church after 1879 removal of box pews.

C15 rood screen, with five bays with depressed ogee arch and 6 traceried lights over in each flanking bay.

Wall paintings in nave (within a round headed niche) and aisle (The Annunciation).

C13 grisaille glass, a complete lancet in the chancel north wall,

two C16 armorial windows in the south wall.

Both appear to have lived to a ripe old age!

Brass in nave floor, John Halke, d, 1604, and Anne his wife Simple inscription set in marble slab with a detached hawk over (Grandparents of Dr. William Harvey, the discoverer of circulation of blood).

Both appear to have lived to a ripe old age!

© Julian P Guffogg