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Architectural Features

Remodelled and south aisle chapel, nave, chancel and tower added in C14.

Plain tile roof, separately over nave and aisle.

Chamfered plinth, corner buttresses up to belfry with chamfered offsets, string course to belfry, parapet string with carved gargoyles, battlemented parapet with moulded coping, and weathervane.

Yellow sandstone memorial tablet fixed to north-east face of tower, inscribed: "HERE LYETH THE BODY OF / SUSANNA WIFE OF / THOMAS GARDNAR OF / SANSAW IN THIS COUNTY GENTLEMAN AND / ELDER DAUGHTER OF / ROBERT ARNEWAY / GENTLEMAN AND / ANN HIS WIFE OF / WESTON IN THIS PARISH / SHE DECEASED THE 30th / DAY OF OCTOBER IN 1661".

Hoodmould with carved heads as stops.

Inscribed sundial dated 1673 on wall between fifth and sixth bays.

Right-hand return front with pair of memorial tablets set in wall

Pair of cinquefoil-headed lancets to north with hollow-chamfered reveals and hoodmoulds with carved stops.

East window of 4 cinquefoil-headed lights with flowing tracery, hollow- chamfered reveals and hoodmould with carved stops.

Interior: C14 and C19 five-bay nave arcade consisting of alternating circular and octagonal piers with chamfered bases and capitals, and recessed chamfered arches.

Reused probably C17 panelling in tympanum above C19 doors.

Chamfered rear arches, south aisle windows with remains of former C12 and C18 round arches in wall above.

Pairs of moulded purlins, sub-divided into square panels and carved heraldic bosses.

hoodmould with carved stops.

Fittings: chancel has reused C17 dado panelling with carved lozenges and arches etc. Altar with raised and fielded panelling.

Commandment boards flanking eastwindow with Ionic pilasters and round arches with carved spandrels.

Brass communion rails.

Probably C18 hexagonal wooden pulpit with bolection-moulded panels, moulded cornice and C19 chamfered stone base.

Brass eagle lectern.

C17 or C17-style communion table with bulbous legs in south aisle chapel.

C17 stone font with circular step, circular stem and octagonal lead-lined bowl with carved panels, depicting a cock, eagle, lion etc. and continuous carved band below.

Encaustic tiles to chancel, south chapel and Heber chapel.

Stained glass: east window of 1846, in memory of Mary Heber, d.

Glass in Heber chapel dated 1901, 1902 and 1911.

Monuments: Hugh Pigot of Peplow, d. 1697 (aisle, s. wall).

Wreathed urn on a pedestal against an obelisk, flanking urns, cartouche with shield and base with 3 winged angels.

Elaborate Gothic monument with central crocketed ogee arch and traceried side panels.

Pair of old photographs of the interior of the church before 1883 showing the aisle with box pews and a central pulpit against the south wall.