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St Mary

Whaddon

Buckinghamshire

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District: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority) Parish: Whaddon National Grid Reference: SP 80532 34074 Details SP 83 SW WHADDON CHURCH HILL 2/128 Church of St. Mary 19.8.59 GV I Parish church, C12, altered C14 and C16. Restored 1889, 1891, 1902 and 1906. Coursed rubble stone, lead roofs to nave and aisles, tiled roofs to chancel and N. chapel

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C14 W. tower of 2 stages has off-set buttresses, battlemented parapet with gargoyles, stair turret at S.E. corner, and 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber

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C16 clerestory with 2-light window to N. 2 3-light windows to S. and 2 single lights to E, N. aisle has 2 2-light traceried windows, partly restored, and door in moulded arch with hood and carved head stops

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S. aisle has similar door and 3-light window to E, and 2 3-light traceried windows,mostly C19, to S. C16 porches have 2-centred chamfered arches

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N. Chapel has segmental arched recess, cusped piscina and C14 roof with arched braced collars and wind-braces

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Fittings: C13 font, on 4 columns with strips of dogtooth ornament between

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Early C17 altar rails and communion table

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Other fittings and glass C19-C20. monuments: Purbeck marble tomb of Thomas Pigott, 2 wives and children 1519, with ornamental blind tracery to tomb chest, canopy on slender decorated shafts, and small brasses

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Monument to Arthur, Lord Grey de Wilton 1593 with plain tomb chest and inscription above in surround of short fluted Ionic columns and cornice hood

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Stone tablet of 1610 with brasses of Margaret Myssenden and skeleton