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Description: | The correspondent of Gentleman's Magazine gives a description of the church. "The church is a handsome structure, extremely regular, and built in the shape of a cross, consisting of a nave, two aisles, and a chancelÂ…. The spire covered with shingles stands in the centre of the building, and is seen at a great distance off." The writer conjectured that the church was built about the time of Henry VII. To Nikolaus Pevsner, it is a thirteenth-century building, with Victorian alterations.
Figure 3 shows a building divided into two storeys: the lower serving as a porch to the church, the upper used as a schoolroom. This was demolished during the 1870s restoration. Figure 4 is one of the shields on the sides of the windows bearing a cipher or merchant's mark. Figure 5 shows the octagonal font.
A notable feature is the extremely thin tower, with a low belfry stage containing a single window and a wooden shingled spire.
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Gentleman's Magazine, January 1795, p. 40; December 1795, p. 993-5 (print opposite p. 993). | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Subjects: | building St Mary school church font | Temporal: | start=1795-01-01; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Gentleman's Magazine | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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