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St Mary

Bettws-y-Crwyn

Shropshire

Late C13 or C14, nave partly and chancel completely rebuilt in 1860.

Architectural Features

Nave: south side: three C19 windows, paired lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops

North side: 3 late C13 or C14 lancets with hoodmoulds and carved stops.

Chancel: single lancets to north and south with hoodmoulds and carved stops

C15-style East window with three trefoiled ogee-headed lights, panelled tracery and hoodmoulds with carved stops.

INTERIOR: C15 or early C16 six-bay nave roof has arch-braced trusses with moulded bases, collars with cusped V-struts above, two pairs of moulded purlins, and three tiers of cusped wind braces forming quatrefoil panels

8-bay late C15 or C16 screen has round- arched lights with open tracery and bisecting mullions, moulded tie- beam above and open quatrefoiled panel beneath, and central 2-bay opening with carved spandrels

C17 octagonal wooden pulpit with lugged panels and reader's desk with raised and fielded panels

C19 font with C17 panelled cover