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St Mary

Kirtlington

Oxfordshire

Early C12 (or possibly earlier), mid C13, C14 and C15

Architectural Features

A monument on the north wall commemorates "Thomas, Sir Robert Dashwood's Black" (died 1691). South aisle extends beside central tower and has 2 large square-headed C15 windows of 3 cinquefoiled lights plus a similar window to west

monuments on the south side include several early-C17 inscriptions and a pedimented Baroque monument

South porch has C15 entrance arch and shelters the early-C14 south door with continuous hollow mouldings

West wall of nave has a similar doorway below a C14 window with 3 lights and cusped intersecting tracery

North wall has a renewed square-headed Perpendicular window and a small blocked mid-C13 doorway with deep mouldings and a shouldered inner arch

Rectangular tower in Norman style is externally C19 and has paired bell-chamber openings of 3 orders with cushion capitals below an arcaded corbel table

Interior: chancel incorporates a C13 trefoil-headed double piscina with restored projecting bowls, but is otherwise C19 with fine foliage corbels supporting a waggon roof, and an elaborate encaustic-tile and marble floor

Lower C14 arch to south leads to the Dashwood Chapel

A C11/C12 carved tympanum is re-set over the vestry door

3-bay C13 nave arcades have quatrefoil columns, with stiff-leaf capitals to south and moulded capitals to north, and have carved headstops to the hoods

Roofs are in C15 style and incorporate some original work

Large wall painting on the north wall

Fittings include a C17 communion table with baluster legs, a mid-C17 octagonal pulpit with arched perspective panels, and richly-carved chancel furnishings by Scott

Monuments include a Baroque cartouche to James Evans (died 1702) and, in the Dashwood Chapel, a large marble wall monument of 1724, with a broken-segmental pediment and flanking drapery, commemorating numerous members of the family and signed William and Thomas Williams of Middleton Stoney

There are also many hatchments

Stained glass of c.1852 in south aisle by Thomas Willement, and of 1877 in chancel. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire,'Vol.VI, p.229-31

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