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Our Lady

Architectural Features

Plain-tile roofs have coped gable parapets

Nave north wall has blocked C14 2-bay arcade of 2 chamfered orders and octagonal pier and half-octagonal responds with moulded capitals

Small square bell turret of 1893 on nave roof is tile-hung and has steep pyramid plain-tile roof and weathervane

Boarded 4-centred barrel roof, reconstructed in 1893 from the old materials, has moulded arch braces, ribs and-purlins and carved bosses, and wall posts

C13 chancel arch of 2 roll-moulded orders has half-round responds with moulded capitals to inner arch, and hood mould

Nave has blocked C14 arcades with continuous hood moulds and central head stop, defaced to south

It was probably originally the rood screen

Some medieval encaustic tiles

Octagonal font of c.1893

Stained glass

East window has incomplete but very fine C14 Tree of Jesse, probably removed from the Abbey during the Civil War, found buried in the grounds of Merevale Hall and restored and installed in the early C19

Tracery has some late C14 and C15 work

2 south windows and a north window have some C14 glass

Monuments: brass in chancel floor: Robert, Earl Ferrers 1412 and his wife

Alabaster chest tomb against nave south wall c.1440 has effigies of a knight and lady, and 4 angels holding shields

Effigy of a knight against north wall of second half of C15 is headless and footless

Wall monument across east corner of south aisle: Francis Stratford 1762 and Ann 1779

3 hatchments in nave, and 2 to Francis and Ann Stratford in north aisle