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St Laurence

Combe

Oxfordshire

Offset buttresses divide bays, which each have parapet with quatrefoil-carved frieze

Architectural Features

early C12 round-arched inner doorway

string course with gargoyles and carved heads beneath crenellated parapet with corner finials

Late C14 three-bay wagon roof, with corbelled posts braced laterally to ashlar plate

late C14 rood stairs to north and canopied image niche and trefoiled piscina to south

Rare late C14 polygonal stone pulpit, carved with blind tracery and resting on ribbed stem

C19 font to west

C15 octagonal font, with relief carvings of figures, on floor to east

Wall paintings: parts of complete painted scheme of c.1440, discovered 1894

Doom painting over chancel arch has Christ flanked by Apostles and scenes of the Last Judgement

Christopher fording the stream, over south door, painted over by C17 Ten Commandments and Moses and Aaron

Two C17 devotional texts to north and south walls

C15 stained glass: east window has canopies set in panel tracery and, in the tracery glass, Christ and the Virgin in Majesty flanked by two Cherubim and a censing angel

East window of south side of nave has figure of St

Nave windows have C15 Cherubim set in panel tracery lights

Late C19 west window of south side of nave has reset C15 fragments. (buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p551-2

National Monuments Record

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