Architectural Features
Plain-tile roofs with ashlar-coped gables and battlemented parapets with corner pinnacles.
EXTERIOR: crenellated cornice to nave and chancel with twin cusped niches and carved panel over each merlon including east wall return of chancel.
String course at eaves level with carved figurative and armorial bosses on underside corresponding to each embrasure.
INTERIOR: chancel with late C19 decorative barrel vault featuring angels.
Nave: C14 restored trussed rafter roof.
Remarkable series of medieval, C16
A medieval preaching cross in the churchyard of St Mary's church, Burford. The tabernacle head on the cross contains carvings of the crucifixion and the nativity. The cross is Grade II listed.
C17 monuments to Cornewall family, restored by Prof. EW Tristam 1938, all with the shields of the family: Heart of Edmund Cornewall d. 1436
Monument to Edmund Cornewall dated 1508 in the centre of the chancel of Burford church. The monument in the background is of Princess Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt.
Life-size painted wooden recumbent effigy of Edmund Cornewall 1508.
Life-size painted stone recumbent effigy of Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt, under enriched ogival canopy, d. 1426.
Immense wooden tryptych, 3.45 metres high by 3.05 metres wide, to Richard Cornewall d. 1568 and Janet his wife d. 1547, and son Edmund d. 1585.
interior has 3 painted full-figure portraits in upper section and a 2.21 metre tall cadaver of Edmund Cornewall is depicted in lower section
the wings are painted inside and outside with figures and armorial shields.
Paintings are signed by Melchior Salabossh, 1588.
Baroque wall tablet to Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Cornewall d. 1675.
Monuments to Rushout family of 1822 and 1827 both by Richard Westmacott R.A. of London and of 1852 by Charles Geerts of Louvain.
Monument to Thomas Morres d. 1752 and wife Elizabeth d. 1742 by Richard Squire of Worcester.