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St Mary

St Mary

Ashley

Hampshire

Early C12, chancel lengthened mid C12, C15/C16 windows

Architectural Features

Rubble flint, plastered except to E, stone quoins and dressings, old plain tile roofs

Small early C12 church of chancel and nave with W bell-gable, chancel prob lengthened mid C12, S porch added 1701

Chancel has restored C14 square headed 3-light E window

C16 diagonal corner buttresses

To N and S walls at E late C12 roundheaded lancet with chamfer

In S wall to W and set lower 2nd C12 lancent, earlier with no chamfer but with later pointed head, perhaps original SE window

To NW and SW C15 squareheaded 2-light cinqfoiled window

Taller, wider nave has on N wall early C12 roundheaded lancet, set high on wall

W window C15, restored squareheaded cinqfoiled window with moulded jambs and mullions

In gable C19 pair of unequal pointed bell openings C12 cross on gable

Inside chancel E qindow has splayed C14 jambs

Central S lancet has altered sill and on E jamb C13 wallpainting of young person under crocketed gable

Opposite monument 1755 to A Weekes by T Baker, London, inscription panel with column each side supporting open pediment

On S wall monument 1707 to T Hobbs, volutes and garlands either side of inscription panel

To W of it reset C15 stone head wearing cap

W of door C16 alms box on post, cut from tree trunk

At W end Norman font of Purbeck marble with square bowl moulded stem and square base