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St Mary

Felmersham

Bedfordshire

Predominantly C13 parish church with some C15 alterations and C19 restoration

Architectural Features

Three bay chancel with modern tracery in east window, and three early C13 lancet windows with moulded string under, inside and out

Plain east and west crossing arches of three orders, three bay C15 screen with tracery and coved half-vault under former rood loft and inscription

Four bay nave with C13 arcade and C15 clerestory windows with two cinquefoiled lights

West front of nave has deeply moulded central doorway flanked by blank arches with tracery, under a seven bay wall arcade surmounted by a top stage with central three-centred arch flanked by two narrower pointed arches, each enclosing a lancet window: low pitched C15 embattled gable over

Aisles have some C13 restored windows

Tower of three stages, the upper added in C15, together with embattled parapet and south east turret

Two C17 brasses.

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