St Mary The Virgin

nave and north aisle are late C12, the nave with early C16 clerestory, the aisle much rebuilt 1866

C13 north chapel

C14 south porch

early C16 west tower

Fine series of C13 wall paintings revealed 1930's. Coursed rubble limestone, with stone slate roofs to chancel, porch and aisle, and lead roofs to nave and tower

2 upper stages are early C16 and have moulded ashlar parapet, 2-light bell-chamber openings with Tudor hoodmoulds, and chamfered rectangular lights below

Nave has 2 C13 lancets in south wall, and a C19 3-light window with simple cusped tracery

Early C16 clerestory has moulded ashlar parapet with carved stone heads to string, and 3-light rectangular windows with hallow-chamfered mullions

C14 south doorway with double hollow chamfer, in large gabled porch with double chamfered arch and narrow light above

North aisle retains similar C14 doorway, but otherwise rebuilt 1866 with lancet windows

Chancel has 2 C13 lancets with cusping in north wall, another to south, and a C15-C16 lowside window of 2 cusped lights with a Tudor hoodmould

East wall has a pair of small C13 lancets, linked by single dripmould, and a single rectangular light above

This is carved with a Maltese cross and has diaper ornament and heavy billet moulding to border

Interior: C15-C16 door to tower, formerly south door, in moulded depressed arch

C19 nave roof on restored stone corbels with carved heads

Chancel arch is C13, with 2 hollow chamfered orders, the inner on moulded corbels

Chancel has wide window splays with altered C15-C16 heads, C19 roof and window-seat sedilia, and aumbry and piscina in east wall

Piscina in trefoil-headed and has carved foliage corbel

Wall paintings in nave are mid-late C13

South wall is painted with figure of St

Richard of Chichester high near east end, and 2 figures of bishops and a hand of God above a painted roundel at west end

Other scenes in jambs of central lancet and to left have painted foliage friezes, and show The Angel appearing to Joseph, the Massacre of the Innocents, and the Adoration of the Magi

Fittings: C12 cylindrical font on square base with worn carved feet

semi-octagonal C15 stone pulpit with blind tracery panels and brattishing

other fittings C19, with glass by Clayton and Bell

North Chapel contains 2 good monuments: 1) to Elinor Hungerford, 1592, with recumbent effigy in Corinthian tabernacle

2) marble wall cartouche to Anthony Hungerford, 1703, with richly carved military trophies. (P.J. Randell: A History of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Black Bourton, 1986