Description

1. LITTLE COXWELL SU 29 SE 2/8 21.11.66 Church of St Mary

II*

2. Transitional with Early English and Perpendicular alterations and an extensive late C19 restoration. Rubble stone and roughcast with stone dressings, gabled stone tiled roof and dressed stone copings. 2 bay nave, 2 bay chancel, double bellcote between nave and chancel, S porch and N vestry. S side of nave has a pointed headed window of 2 cusped lights and a Perpendicular 3 cusped light window under a flat head with carved label heads - one with a sugar bag hat. Nave N side has a C19 2 cusped light window. The gabled bellcote is C13 with 2 pointed openings and a quatrefoil above with a sundial on its S face. S side of chancel has a Perp. window of 2 tiers of 4 cusped lights with a transom between under a flat head with shield labels, a plainly moulded Transitional priest's door and one 2 cusped light C19 window. C19 Decorated style 3 light window to the E and a similar C19 W window with a quatrefoil in a roundel above. Perp. S porch with a gabled stone tiled roof and a four-centred arch with dripstone and label heads enclosing a studded plank and batten C19 door. Transitional S doorway with slim colonettes, plain moulded capitals and an arch of two orders, the inner a plain roll moulding, the outer of billet. 2 celled aiseless interior with a C19 W gallery fronted by reused sections of a c14 screen and an open rafter roof with tie beams and cusped braces. Transitional ogee-headed chancel arch on plain stopped and chamfered jambs and on the chancel S wall a trefoil-headed piscina. On either side of the E window are 2 cusped headed niches - one presumably a blocked Early English window. Good 1896 stained glass E window depicting the crucifixion by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Fine brass 'spider' chandelier dated 1729, wrought iron hour-glass stand by pulpit and Royal Arms above chancel arch.

Listing NGR: SU2819093534

External Links

• Wikidata Q17549921

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