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St Faith

Shellingford

Oxfordshire

C12 with porch and spire added c.1625 and late C19 vestry off nave

Architectural Features

Early C14 reticulated 3-light east window

late C15 three-light Perpendicular and early C14 one-light window to north chancel wall

south chancel wall has 3 early C14 one-light windows and a fine Norman priests door (possibly reset in early C14) which is of two orders with carved capitals and shaft rings to columns and has dogtooth ornament to arch

North wall of nave has 3 late C15 four-light transomed windows with cusped heads

late C19 vestry has one 2-light C14 style window and steps down to plank door in basement

South wall of nave has one early C14 curvilinear 3-light window and two early C15 eight-light transomed windows to left with cusped heads and human and beasts heads to hood mould terminals

Norman south door of two orders with shaft rings and carved capitals, dog tooth ornament to arch with beasts' head terminal to hood mould

C17 plank double doors

Battlements surmounting nave walls are probably early C17

West tower has Norman lancet windows, string course surmounting ground floor corner buttresses and gargoyles at base of battlemented parapet

Interior: East window has C15 glass from other parts of the church and some C20 glass placed there in 1947

some late C17 and C18 ledger stones on chancel floor, also the Purbeck marble base for a C14 brass which has been removed leaving only the outline

stained glass of 1930 to north window, late C19 stained glass to south

Engaged columns of C12 semi-circular chancel arch have vine-scroll strapwork and ball flower carvings to capitals

Nave has ledger stones and indent of C19 brass on aisle floor

Jacobean pulpit

C15 octagonal font has Jacobean cover

On east wall of nave south of chancel arch is monument by W. Tyler to second Viscount Ashbrook, d.1780

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