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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Cherwell

Oxfordshire

South aisle clerestory late C14

Architectural Features

Nave clerestorey C15

C12 font has cable moulded rim

C19 stone pulpit

Nave beam dated 1684, some plain and slip decorated late medieval floor tiles

Wall paintings: C14 fragments in north and east walls of chancel and north wall of nave

Monuments: 3 notable medieval monuments, restored C19: In the south aisle, effigy of a cross-legged knight, probably John de Broughton d.1315 with a lion at his feet and angels supporting his pillow in an elaborately canopied recess, both effigy and canopy violently coloured 1846

in the south aisle the effigy of a knight in plate armour c.1350 on a C15 tomb chest

double chest tomb in the chancel to William first Lord Saye and Sele d.1662 and wife Elizabeth d.1648 has chest carved with sheilds and strapwork cartouches and plain black marble slab

A C13 stone coffin lid in south aisle

C19 monuments: in chancel to Richard Haydon d.1837

Brass in south aisle to Lady Philippa Bishopsden d.1414

10 hatchments in the south aisle dated 1666 to 1847 all commemorating Fiennes or Twisletons who lived at Broughton Castle

Stained glass: 3 circular Cl6 heraldic panels in south window, other C19 glass by Lavers and Westlake, Kempe, Clayton and Bell, Burlinson and Grylls and Munich glass

The Hatchments in Broughton Church, church pamphlet).