St Mary

C13 corbel table with double roll mouldings to the nave and chancel.

C14 unpanelled wagon roof to the nave with moulded tie-beams with diamond stops.

C14 recumbent stone effigy of a priest with ogee- curved recess with a crocketed finial in the north wall of the chancel

Red and black tile flooring to the nave.

C12 circular limestone font with a decorative band with zig-zag motif around its outer margin and traces of an incised triangular decoration to its base which has now been cut away and replaced by a C19 octagonal stone base.

C15 stone pulpit carved from a single stone block with crudely carved blind tracery with C19 limestone base and steps with a wrought iron railing.

Monuments: 3 simple white on black marble monuments over the south door.

Four C17 and two C18 ledgers within the chancel, one to Margaret Brett, wife of Henry Brett, died 1645 another to Dame Henrietta Brownlowe, daughter of Henry Brett (q.v. Cowley Manor).

Cowley Manor is now a 5 star hotel See: https://www.cowleymanor.com/ This impressive country house was almost entirely rebuilt in 1855-7 for James Hutchinson, a London Stockbroker. The design was by George Somers Clarke who built the new house on the site of an earlier 1695 house of Henry Brett. St Mary's church, Cowley, is in the grounds of Cowley Manor and can be seen on the right. The building is Grade II listed, see: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1340155?section=official-listing The tower of St Mary's church can be seen on the right.

© Philip Halling

C19 stained glass to the windows of the chancel. (David Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds