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St Mary and Adjoining Wall

St Mary And Adjoining Wall

Bunny

Nottinghamshire

C14, C15, C18, restored 1718 for Sir Thomas Parkyns, C19, restored 1890-1 and 1911.

Architectural Features

Angle buttressed single stage C14 ashlar tower on a moulded plinth and embattled with plain band under and single corner crocketed pinnacles.

Over is a single large arched C14 3 light window with reticulated tracery.

The north wall has a single restored C14 arched 3 light window with intersecting tracery and hood mould.

To the left is a moulded arched doorway with Cl7 door, further left is a single squint and on the far left 2 similar restored C14 windows with hood moulds.

Embattled dressed coursed rubble C15 clerestory with band of blind quatrefoil under and 4 windows, 3 with 2 ogee arched lights, the single window to the left with 2 trefoil arched lights.

There are 2 gargoyles and the remains of 3 crocketed pinnacles.

The single buttress second from the left rises from a carved grotesque head.

There are 2 restored C14 arched 3 light windows with intersecting tracery, hood moulds and 2 remaining label stops.

Above, in the chancel wall, are 2 C14 windows each with 3 trefoil arched lights under a flat arch and with moulded surrounds.

To the left are 2 restored C14 arched 3 light windows with intersecting tracery, hood moulds and human head label stops.

2 C14 arched 3 light intersecting traceried windows with hood moulds and label stops.

C15 ashlar porch on moulded plinth with parapet as aisle and remains of 4 crocketed pinnacles.

To the left is a single similar restored C14 window with hood mould and single left human head label stop.

C15 dressed coursd rubble clerestory has 4 windows each with 2 ogee arched lights under a flat arch and the remains of 2 crocketed pinnacles.

C14 5 bay nave arcades with double chamfered arches and circular columns and responds apart from the north west and south west columns and the north responds which are octagonal.

All with moulded capitals apart from the south east which is crudely carved.

Moulded chancel arch with screen, part constructed of C14 screen.

South chancel with C14 sedilia with engaged quatrefoil colonnettes with fillets and moulded capitals.

Circular C12 ashlar font.

OCtagonal C19 ashlar font.

Few fragments of wall painting to the north east respond.

Over the south aisle doorway is a Royal Arms of George III.

There are 3 hatchments over the chancel arch.

This is surmounted by a kneeling female figure and sarcophagus.

On the north wall is a tablet to Dame Anne Parkyns, 1725, by Edward Poynton, the apron being decorated with putti and skulls and the segmental arched head surmounted by a kneeling figure.

There is a further monument to Richard Parkyns, 1603.

This has kneeling male and female figures in contemporary dress and facing each other with 4 small figures behind.

That to Henry Cropper, 1726, has a roundel decorated with a figure on the apron, and is surmounted by a broken pediment supported on fluted pilasters.

A further wall tablet with obliterated inscription is to Humphrey Barley, 1571.

In the north aisle, removed from the chancel, is the large and fine monument to Sir Thomas Parkyns, 1741.

The monument is 2 bays wide, in the left bay is the lifesize figure of Parkyns in wrestling pose.

In the right bay is a small figure of a man lying on a mat with Father Time standing next, both crudely carved.

Above and flanking the figures are single Corinthian pilasters with shields of arms over.