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St Mary

St Mary

Redbourn

Hertfordshire

S. aisle, mid C14

Architectural Features

Some reused Roman brick

chancel with steep plain tile roof

C15 W door and belfry lights

S wall with 2 C15 3-light windows and a 4-centre arched door

Late C15 nave roof with short crown posts

Good C15 N aisle roof with moulded beams

N aisle wall has a blocked Norman window

Chancel has, on N wall, a C14 sedilia with ogee arches and C12 capitals

Very good rood screen of 1478 with pierced and blank traceried panels, 2 either side of central arch, and a cove of open fan tracery

Early C18 stone and marble font in W aisle with baluster-shaped base and shell-like bowl

Brasses: in chancel to Sir Richard Bede, 1560

Monuments: N chancel wall, good marble epitaph to Eignon Bignon and his wife, 1717, by Thomas Bull