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St Mary The Virgin

Downe, Greater London

Medieval church of the C13-15, restored in the C19; possessing a distinctive broached spire

Architectural Features

Small brasses to a civilian and his wife c.1400. Another to Thomas Petle, c.1420, and a large brass to Jacob Verzelini, 1522 -1606, a Venetian glass maker who worked in London from 1571, and his wife. The indent for the Verzelini brass remains on the floor, but the brasses themselves have been reset in a new wall slab at the W end of the nave.

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