Architectural Features
others reglazed and font restored, architect C H Samson
1931 Herbert memorial chapel completed to 1926 designs by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
The chapel is dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. John Buchan based the character Sandy Arbuthnot on Col. Aubrey Herbert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Herbert )
Squared and coursed red sandstone tower, roughcast nave, squared and irregularly coursed iron stone chancel, Ham stone dressing to memorial chapel, slate roofs, coped verges to porch only.
West tower with stair turret, 2-bay nave, south porch, chancel with memorial chapel set into hillside, chapel linked to chancel by tomb beneath canopy, entrance now via west door, Crenellated and diagonally buttressed tower, renewed merlons, trefoil headed single light louvred bell openings, square headed lancet below, string course, 3-light west window, west door
3-light windows flanking single storey gabled porch, depressed chamfered pointed arch opening, sundial dated 1855, similar inner doorway, medieval studded plank door with C14/C15 handle plate, slate stone inscribed "This wall and porch was newley built in 1725", to right of porch tablet to John Goodwing, died 1774.
Unmoulded tower arch with jamb cut by doorway giving access to pulpit set in roodscreen, chamfered jambs to tower arch largely obscured by organ loft, Plastered barrel vault roofs to nave and chancel, latter with only axial ribs and bosses, nave with only roof ridge rib and bosses, open ribbed roof to chapel, moulded compartment ceiling to tower, Five bay fan vaulted screen, much restored with pulpit inserted.
Jacobean altar table, two C17 joint stools, branch candelebra.
Remains of medieval stained glass in north window of chancel, glass in south window said to be C16 French, 1890s stained glass, window to child of Luard family, died 1891 said to be by Morris and Co.
Square Purbeck warble font with arcaded sides.
Herbert memorial chapel: chest tomb with effigy of A N H Molyneux Herbert of Pixton Park (qv) died 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under wooden canopy designed by Lutyens, the motif of a cross with circles in the angles is repeated in the leading of the apricot colour tinted glass.
At time of survey it contains some broken C17 bench ends.
The porch, no longer used, contains a late medieval poor chest and remains of stocks, upper half restored. >