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Architectural Features

clay plain tile roof.

Crenellated parapet with floral panels having animal gargoyles and crocket pinnacles at corners.

Tudor-arched south doorway with plank and batten doors, possibly C15.

Elaborate finials to buttresses above fantastic animal gargoyles.

Blocked moulded pointed-arched north doorway appears C14

3 windows with Perpendicular tracery and to left late C14 window with reticulated tracery reset from another position.

Three-stage tower is a good example of the continuity of the medieval mason's tradition into the early C18, Thomas Sumsion being a notable practitioner.

moulded image shelf with bust below on west and leaf-carved feature on north and south exhibiting a classical influence.

C15 five-bay north arcade and west 3 bays of south arcade have octagonal columns with moulded capitals, moulded bases, and simple chamfered-pointed arches.

Perpendicular clerestorey is C19 and original nave roof has been raised, and has moulded brattished tie-beam trusses with carved spandrel filling.

Choir stalls, pews and octagonal timber pulpit are all C19.

C14 octagonal stone font standing on shafted Cl9 base has flower and shield panels to alternating faces and stands on baptistery floor of 1920 by W.H.R. Blacking.

Stained glass of late C19 and early C20 include east window by Burlison and Grylls.

The present tower is a replacement for the medieval tower with spire which collapsed on 7th January 1698/9.

Very little remains of the C13

C14 church especially after the extensive C19 rebuilding.

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