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St Mary the Virgin

St Mary The Virgin

Attenborough

Nottinghamshire

Copper and plain tile roofs.

Architectural Features

West tower, C15, single stage, has 4 pairs of corner buttresses with linking top band.

Chancel, C15, 3 bays, has chamfered plinth and eaves and coped parapet and to east 2 pairs of corner buttresses and coped gable, restored C20.

Central Tudor arched priest's door and above, 3 C16 cusped double lancets with panel tracery.

Flanked by single C16 double lancets with square heads.

To east, early C15 cusped double lancet with chamfered square headed reveal.

East end has C15 triple lancet with panel tracery and four centred arched reveal.

Nave clerestory, raised late C15, 4 bays, has coped gable with cross.

East gable has, above, late C15 triple lancet with hood mould.

South aisle, C15, 4 bays, has 2 corner and single intermediate buttress.

South porch, rebuilt C18 in C15 style has partial plinth, chamfered eaves and coped gable with cross.

Inner doorway early C14, chamfered and rebated with hood mould and mask stops.

Re-set plank door with scrollwork hinges, C12.

Galilee west window has fragment of C19 stained glass.

Tower west door, C15, has double roll moulding and hood mould.

West window has patterned stained glass.

Nave arcades, early C13, have westernmost bays bisected by tower.

North arcade has round piers with moulded round bases and various foliate and angel capitals.

North side has 8 C13 mask corbels.

South arcade has similar piers with square bases and re-cut leaf and beast mask capitals, mid C14.

East gable has stained glass window, 1908.

North aisle has stained glass north windows, 1945, 1922 and east end war memorial stained glass window and brass, 1918.

South aisle east end has to left, four centred arched opening to rood stair, and to right, small C13 piscina.

Westernmost stained glass window by 'P & Q', 1960, with C15 fragments in head.

Chancel has C15 chamfered arch with faceted conical imposts.

Stained glass east window, 1892, by Ward and Hughes.

Flanked by single C14 angel corbels.

South side has to east, restored C13 cusped piscina.

Priest's door flanked by single re-set C14 blank traceried bench ends with poppyheads.

Fittings include plain C13 font with blind pointed arcading.

Carved stalls incorporating early C17 carvings by C. G. Hare, 1928.

Oak angel lectern, 1935.

C19 oak pulpit.

Memorials include painted alabaster tablet with apron, pilasters, pediment and strapwork to Francis Jaques and wife, 1606 and 1621.

Painted wood memorial with columns and pediment, dated 1623, to Powtrell family.

Pedimented Renaissance Revival style tablet with pilasters to John Mather and wife, 1625.

2 hatchments.

4 C19 brasses and tablets.

5 C20 brasses and tablets.

Royal Arms, George III.