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St Mary

Architectural Features

C14: North and south aisles widened

C15: Milcombe Chapel

North aisle: four-light west window has unusual tracery with carved figures

North porch and doorway early C14 with wave mouldings

C14 porch is vaulted with room over and third storey added in C15

straight parapet has gargoyles

West tower: west doorway has three orders of wave moulding, hollows filled with ballflower, leaves and birds and large carved heads in place of capitals

Hood has seated figures

Interior: chancel: C12 responds of chancel arch re-used in C14 rebuilding

re-set C12 doorway in north wall has tympanum with fish scale pattern

re-used Romanesque carvings to rere-arches of south windows

North aisle roof and most of south aisle roof C14

font C15 with Jacobean cover

rood screen C15

Wall paintings: Fragments of C15 over north doorway

in the Milcombe Chapel a series of narrative scenes probably C16

Fragments of C14 glass in central window of north aisle

Monuments: To Sir John Thornycroft (d.1725) in Milcombe Chapel, and other monuments to this family including Elizabeth, Lady Thornycroft (1704), John Thornycroft (1687) and his wife Dorothy (d,1717/18). There are memorials to C19 members of the Holloway family and to the vicars: Robert Pargiter, John Davis, Harry Davis, George Bell, James Hodgson

The C14 and C15 tracery and lively sculpture was carried out by a school of C14 masons who worked on other churches locally