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St Mary

St Mary

Morcott

Rutland

Parish Church, largely of C12 to C13 with some later additions and alterations.

Architectural Features

C12 west tower, now rendered over except for quoins and dressings, embattled, three stages.

West door is Norman, with paired heavily sculpted shafts and cushion capitals, its top was altered in C14 to a pointed arch, and the outer shafts carry the outer arch of a paired traceried light above.

In the second stage is a heavily moulded Norman oculus, cut by a C14 traceried niche.

Paired C14 traceried lights to bell chamber.

South door is C12, a round arch, with flat voussoirs and chamfered architrave very plain.

The porch is C14 with coped gable and double chamfered archway with hoodmould and corbel heads.

North chapel has pointed arched doorway with carved heads as corbels and at apex.

Inside, the Church is mostly Norman, with tower arch and nave arcade of two bays, late C12 to early C13.

Cruciform abaci and capitals of arcade are richly carved with foliage crockets and masks, each different, with interlace on the easternmost, and a tall chevron to the west.

The chancel is very spacious and has an Early English arch to north chapel, and a C17 altar table.

The pulpit is Elizabethan, richly carved with blank arcading.

Fragments of an earlier stall and lectern survive with poppy-head decoration.

Tomb recess in south aisle contains an incised slab, C15.

Font has a plain square basin with chamfered corners making it almost an octagon.

Two hatchments over tower arch.

C15 timbered king post roof to nave.