IMAGES OF MEDIEVAL ART AND ARCHITECTURE

PARISH CHURCH OF ST. MARY'S

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floorplan

Adapted from Taylor, vol III p 982
Please note that the floorplan changed a great
deal over time. For details about it, see the
works bu Butler et al. listed in the bibliography

Exterior Screen-sized image	Interior Screen-sized Image
Baptismal Font  Screen-sized image	From Baldwin Brown, v 2,  facing p 219 Carved angel from wall of apse Screen-sized image

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Note- the following were added to the Anglo Saxon structure much later. (It is such a good brass that I could not resist putting it in, even though it is centuries lated than the fabric of the church -JV)
 
 
 

Memorial Brass

Sir John Cassy and Wife ca  1400 Screen-sized version/  Large "archive" version

• A monestary  was mentioned in a deed dated 804. Perhaps parts of the present building were from that structure.
• Extensively rebuilt durning the Anglo-Saxon period
• Dimensions- these are internal dimensions, the first for each part is east-west, the second is north-south. Present nave and chancel 59 feet 6 inches by 21 feet o inches apsidal chancel 18feet 9 inches by 19 feet 9 inche west tower 16 feet 6 inches by 9 feet 6 inches Height of west tower- currently 71 feet- at one time was probably only 25 feet high (Taylor, p 206)
• Font - 20 in high and 29 inches in diameter  - probably dates from the 9th or 10th century (Taylor, p 206)

Brown, Gerard Baldwin. The arts in early England / by G. Baldwin Brown. London : John Murray, 1915-1926. LCCall Number:
                                             NA963 .B877

Butler, L.A.S, Rahts, P.A. & Taylon, H.M. Deerhurst 1971-4 Ant/iquaries Journal 55L 346-65 (1975)

Taylor, H.M.  and Joan Taylor. Anglo-Saxon architecture Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1965-78. LC Number:
                                             NA963 .T24
 
 
 

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