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St Mary the Virgin

Architectural Features

C12 Romanesque doorway behind C19 pentice with hollow and roll- moulded orders and attached shafts.

Lancets survive in chancel, 5 on each side, with buttresses (one on south side with mutilated Sheila-na gig carving).

North aisle with two C15 three light windows with square label heads.

tower arch and nave arcades on same C13 pattern, with round piers or responds on moulded bases with beaded capitals and double chamfered arches.

Similar arches in tower to side annexes with flying buttresses to tower, that to north finely moulded and of late C13 date.

Altar rails, reredos, candelabra, font box-pews all C19.

The octagonal inserted pier in the nave bears a Dominical Circle to compute Holy Days, carved in 1327 and very rare.

Wall Paintings

The sculpted Royal Arms 1714-1837 appears above the tower arch at the west end of the nave. The inscription below the Arms reads "The gift of Thomas Moulden of Statenborough House in this Parish 1821".

Two hatchments of the Bargrave family and sculptured Royal Arms over tower arch, dated 1821 and given by Thomas Moulden of Statenborough House.

The sculpted Royal Arms 1714-1837 appears above the tower arch at the west end of the nave. The inscription below the Arms reads "The gift of Thomas Moulden of Statenborough House in this Parish 1821".

© Rod Grealish

Monuments

brass in the chancel to Thomas Nevynson, d.1590.

Figures of ruffed Knight and his Lady, almost 3 feet long with inscription and arms , reset before the altar Iron tilting helm hanging on wall above surmounted by Nevison crest.

Wall monument to John Broadley,d.1784, signed J. Bacon, London, 1785.

Monuments in south aisle to Thomas Pettman, d.1791, wall plaque with urn on reeded column with a shield in relief leaning against its base.

John Paramour, d.1737, large white marble architectural wall monument, with Ionic columns supporting broken pediment with achievement on base of 3 cherubs heads.

Reverend Drue Astley Cressener, d.1746, a pair to the last described monument.

In the north aisle, monuments to Sarah Boteler,d.1777, by William Tyler.

Black obelisk surround with figure of a woman leaning on draped urn, pointing towards her infant son, who reaches up to her.

Inscription on a large black obelisk,below it a circular relief of the battle of Ushant, the "Memorable First of June", with an an angel holding scales and a victor's palm.

Said to be from the monument in Westminster Abbey commemorating the battle.