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Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Eaton Bray, Central Bedfordshire

  • St Mary: built c.1220; tower extended & heightened under Reginald Bray, c15; Totternhoe stone, Perpendicular windows

  • St Mary: c15 east end; five light window with cinquefoiled lights under a four-centred head

  • St Mary: south porch

  • St Mary: ornamental c13 scroll ironwork attributed to Thomas Leighton

  • St Mary: detail of Thomas Leighton's ironwork; he was responsible for the scroll ironwork above the tomb of Eleanor of Castile, d.1290, at Westminster Abbey

  • St Mary: five bay arcades, south c.1220, north c.1240; chancel also Early English

  • St Mary: west end showing thatching hooks

  • St Mary: stiff leaf capital of Early English style; c.1220 (south arcade)

  • St Mary: stiff leaf capital of Early English style; c.1220 (south arcade)

  • St Mary: more dramatic stiff leafed capital of Early English style; c.1240 (north arcade)

  • St Mary: font contemporary with stiff leafed north arcade; c.1240

  • St Mary: medieval graffiti on one of the south arcade piers

  • St Mary: tomb of Lady Jane Bray (nee Halwell), 1558

  • St Mary: Lady Jane Bray, 1558, one son & ten daughters; kneels wearing Paris head-dress; coat of arms are Halwell, Norbury, Boteler, Sudeley, Montford, Crozier & d'Abernon

  • St Mary: palimpsest inscription of Jane Bray; 1539

  • St Mary: copy of the reverse of Bray inscription, a monastic spoil

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Entry Name: Church of St Mary

Listing Date: 3 February 1967

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1321356

English Heritage Legacy ID: 35922

ID on this website: 101321356

Location: St Mary's Church, Eaton Bray, Central Bedfordshire, LU6

County: Central Bedfordshire

Civil Parish: Eaton Bray

Built-Up Area: Eaton Bray

Traditional County: Bedfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bedfordshire

Church of England Parish: Eaton Bray with Edlesborough

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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