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St Mary

Wormsley

Herefordshire

C13 with later alterations, and chancel rebuilt probably in late C19.

Architectural Features

Welsh slate roofs with tile cresting.

C13 gabled bell-cot with two trefoiled openings has battered base which breaks through verge.

Chancel has stained glass in east window with cross-motifs and foliated margins.

On north wall is brass plaque for Lt Thomas Andrew Greville Rouse-Boughton-Knight, killed aged 19, near Les Boeufs, France, October 1916, and for Rifleman Edward Charlton, a gamekeeper on the Wormsley Estate, killed aged 36, at Sequehart, north of St Quentin, October 1918.

Chancel arch is C13, double-chamfered and two-centred resting on part octagonal responds and corbels which are probably late C19.

Font is probably C12 or C13 with tapered cyclindrical base and a round-tapered bowl.

Oak pulpit is C17 with two sides of panelling.

Front of oak desk has four panels with moulded margins, probably late C17.