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St Mary

Dymock

Gloucestershire

C11, C12, C14, C15, probably C18, Cl9 restoration.

Architectural Features

Tower in 3 stages: wall monument in lowest, moulded string, slit window for stair, square-headed window centre face with circular clock face over.

Nave: diagonal buttress on left: chamfered plinth, 3 pilaster buttresses to bottom of wall: above wall monument, 1821

Chamfered plinth to porch, twin lancet left return, diagonal corner buttress, moulded door surround, sunken carved spandrels over.

To right 1818 wall monument, diagonal corner buttress.

wall cut for 2-light window, trefoil heads, slight ogee apex: 1695 wall monument below.

Dancocks wall monument on right, 1849 (of Great Netherton farm, q.v.).

Side wall to vestry set back on right, plinth, boarded door with hoodmould, carved heads as stops.

Gable, 1860 wall monument on right: 3- light Perpendicular tracery window, hoodmould, vertical joint to left.

At rear early C12 doorway, boarded door, between pilaster buttresses, nook shafts with Ionic volutes to capitals, roll moulding to door jamb: semi-circular tympanum with tree of life and pellet surround, 2 rows chevrons above to arch and hoodmould.

Short length of Norman string course to right of organ arch: pilaster buttress each side by communion rails, about 2.5m high, quarter column on corners.

C19 aumbry on left, carved back, stone shelf on brackets.

Octagonal stone pulpit with marble corner columns on 4 clustered columns (fitted by c1880).

Circular stone font on stem and 4 panelled external supports, finished with angels.

C17 communion rails, moulded rail, urn balusters, square newels.

1718 Wintour monument in chancel, broken pediment, Corinthian pilasters, gadrooned bases.

1670 Winniatt monument in north transept, 1790 trompe d'oeil to Ann Cam in nave: one C17 and ten late C18 or early C19 monuments.

C17 turned oak font in north transept.

H.M. Taylor considers oldest parts of church late Saxon.

West tower added C15.

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