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St Mary

St Mary

Over

Cambridgeshire

TL 3770 OVER CHURCH END (North Side) 10/89 Church of St. Mary 31.8.62 I Parish church, with C13 origins but mainly early C14.

Architectural Features

West tower early C14, of three stages, on double splayed plinth with main cornice and boss enrichments.

The West doorway and the West window are, however, C15.

Early C14 window openings to second and third stages.

The nave, early C14, reroofed.

C15 and embattled.

South aisle, early C14, embattled with large grotesque gargoyles and frieze of ball flower ornament to main cornice.

Three windows, all early C14, with reticulated tracery.

The South porch is contemporary with the South aisle and the gargoyles and frieze of ball flower ornament are carried round from the aisle.

The porch is in two bays, with two-light early C14 openings to each.

The roof is C15.

The chancel was much restored in 1840 and has early 15 fenestration, but there are North and South doorways with Caernarvon heads which must be C13-C14.

Interior: Nave arcade C15 in six bays.

The North and South aisles have blind arcading of early C14 to the walls.

Crown-post roof in six bays, C15, restored.

Hollow and roll moulded principals and tie beams, the jackposts on stone niches with figures, supported on corbels, some mutilated.

Chancel arch, C13 origins.

Screen between chancel and nave, C15, with vertical tracery to upper bays.

Stalls in cancel possibly from Ramsey Abbey, with misericords.

Pulpit, early C17 with original vaulted tester and enriched ogee canopy.

Seven sided pulpit with arcaded panels on original stem or possibly earlier.

Font, C15, octagonal bowl and stem, enriched with cusping and blank shields of arms.

Two chests, both C17 one in nave, part restored but with original iron fittings, the other in tower.