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St Mary And St Thomas

Knebworth

Hertfordshire

Steep plain tile roofs

Architectural Features

Most windows of nave are C15 with cusped lights

Chancel has Norman Revival style round arch lights

Interior: Large C15 W arch with attached single shafts

Nave roof has C15 hammerbeam trusses with traceried panels above the hammerbeams and crown posts from the collar braces

Complete C15 oak box pews decorated with miniature stepped buttresses

Circa 1150 Norman chancel arch with scalloped capitals

Outstanding internal feature is the Lytton Chapel which contains a remarkable set of early C18 monuments to members of the Lytton family

Standing figure in shell- niche tabernacle frame

Also in chapel, brasses to Roland Lytton (d.1582) and his 2 wives

Tablet to Anne Lytton (d. 1601). Epitaph to William Robinson Lytton Strode (d. 1732) by John Annis: two kneeling figures facing sarcophagus

On N wall: brass to Lord Simon Bache (d. 1414) formerly in chancel floor

C18 pulpit with fielded panels, incorporating C16/early C17 Flemish panels at top

Font at W end c. 1480, limestone, octagonal

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