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St Mary

Architectural Features

3-light east window with hoodmould over C14-style tracery

3-light north and south windows have C15-style tracery, that to north over pointed entrance with studded door

3-light windows with C14-style tracery

Nave has C15 roof with moulded members and rosettes

pulpit probably C20 with linenfold panelling

C18 baluster font with shallow bowl and gadrooning

gallery, by Salmon of Stratford, on 2 fielded-panelled posts with small late C20 rooms beneath ends, entablature and fielded-panelled gallery front with C17 relief carving of Royal arms

Gallery has 4 hatchments to members of the West family, 1799-1882

James West, d.1838, by R Westmacott Jnr, Grecian style with figures of Faith and Hope

Sir Nicholas Kemp, d.1624 and his 2 wives, said to have been brought from St Mary's Chapel, Islington, by the patron: bracketed shelf with kneeling figures, of front-facing man in armour with flanking women in profile, 4 Corinthian columns of touch

STAINED GLASS: brought to church by the patron

west window has early C16 pieces, mostly armorial bearings

chancel east window has many C17 Flemish or German panels of Biblical scenes etc in setting dated 1754, with central c1910 panel of Christ in Majesty

chancel north and south windows have c1760 figures and heads in decorative setting

Wall painting: 2 c1910 panels of the Annunciation flank east window