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St Mary and the Holy Cross

C14 rood screen depicting the Prophets

1730 monument to Robert Dormer

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C14 nave, aisles and chancel; late C15 W. tower, clerestory, N. chapel and S. porch

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W. tower of 3 stages has plinth, angle buttresses, restored battlemented parapet with carved figures to string below, and stair turret at S.W. corner. 2-light traceried openings to bell-chamber, restored and reused C14 traceried window and moulded door to west. 5-bay clerestory of 2-light cusped windows with Tudor hoodmoulds

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Aisles have 3 bays of 3-light traceried windows with flat heads, originally late C15. E. window of S. aisle is restored 3-light Decorated window

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Nave has tall arcades of 5 bays with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, altered C15. Another arch to N. chapel

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End of N. window,and charity boards aisle; chest with linenfold panels and tablet dated 1775; C19 carved stone reredos, stained glass in E.

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Fittings: C15 octagonal font with traceried panels; part of low C15-C16 screen with 4 painted figures in cusped ogee panels, now at E.

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Aisle: a) to Richard Brett, one of the 47 translators of the Bible, and wife Alice, 163?. brasses in chancel to: Margery Verney and children 1509: John Spence, priest,1485; Elizabeth Chester 1593; Joan Plessi c.1350; Richard Iwardby 1510; and John Lewys, priest, 1422.

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Important series of fine wall monuments: In S.

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Small carved and painted figures kneeling at desk in marble aedicule with segmental pediment; b) marble effigies of Richard Winwood and wife 1689, reclining on tomb chest with incised skeleton on front panel

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Attributed to Grinling Gibbons but carving not of his quality