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St Mary

Bromsberrow

Gloucestershire

C13, 14, 1502, 1725 chapel

Architectural Features

Short length vertical tile hanging, moulded sill, timber framed wall above, 2 rows square panels, 3 flat-headed, louvred openings in centre above with skeleton clock face: offset above, shouldered panels, centre 3 again louvred.

C19 carved kneeler to parapet gable, square base to apex cross.

Wall monument on chapel north wall.

Interior: walls plastered except in tower: wide, flat-headed opening to tower, timber beam over dated 1502, contemporary close- studded framing above.

Glazed modelled tiles below cable string course around east end

Large marble wall monument on west wall to John Yates, died 1749, a pyramid on a sarcophagus: 3 other wall monuments on north side, 2 Civil War banners in glass case.

Four late C18, early C19 wall monuments under tower, one 1621 in chancel.

Plain tub-shaped Norman font on 1875 stone base.

1860 stone pulpit, ballflower cornice, lamb and banner in full relief on corbel on one side.

Communion rails ornate carved yew by D. Smith of Ledbury, c1860.

Two Yates' hatchments in nave, 1749 and 1785, Royal Arms, 1779

Five stained glass windows by Kempe, some dated 1886 and 1887.

Chapel east window contains some C17 and medieval glass.

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