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St Mary

South Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire

C11/12, C13 and mainly early C14

Architectural Features

Chancel retains a tiny round-headed window on each side and a C13 lancet to south, but has 2-light side windows and a 4-light east window of Decorated style

2-storey south porch has a ribbed quadripartite vault with richly-carved boss, and the parapet continuing around the aisle has fantastic gargoyles

North aisle is plainer with 3-light windows of reticulated tracery, but incorporates a C13 doorway with deeply-moulded arch and 5 shafts, both detached and attached, with stiff-leaf capitals

3-stage late C14 tower has deep diagonal buttresses, 2-light west window with early Perpendicular tracery and 2-light belfry openings with Y-tracery

In the south wall is a 3-seat C19 sedilia, a C15 pisinca and remains of a C13 piscina, and to north a double aumbrey

Nave arcades are early C13, the west arch of the south arcade being the earliest

Traces of Norman openings are outlined above the north arcade

South aisle has a tie-beam roof dated 1735 and contains a large C14 piscina with double-cusped reticulated tracery

Glass: East window of 1850 by Willement and other mid C19 glass in chancel and at west end of aisles

C14 panels in 1915 window in north aisle

Fittings: Mid C17 pulpit with arched panels, C19 choir stalls incorporating a medieval bench-end carved with chalice and flagons

Monuments: C15 brass to 4 children

sumptuous canopied alabaster monument to Sir Michael Dormer (died 1616) his wife and his father, with 3 full-length figures and high-quality carved panels including a military scene

monument with swan-necked pediment to Elizabeth Wilkinson (died 1654)

several C18 wall monuments. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.III

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