Description

KENTCHURCH CP -
SO 42 NW
5/10 Church of St Mary

GV II

Parish church. Rebuilt in 1859 in Decorated style. Sandstone rubble
with ashlar dressings; tiled roof. West tower with truncated pyramidal
roof and spire; nave with south porch and chancel with north chapel and
vestry. West tower: three stages with plinth and stepped buttresses,
lancet to second stage, cusped bell openings below spire. Nave with
large 3-light window with two-centred head and flower tracery to
right of gabled porch. Chancel to right with square headed windows
of three and two lights with similar tracery; 3-light windows to east
end with mouchettes. Interior retains the Scudamore monument re-sited
in the north chapel. Commemorates John Scudamore, died 1616, and erected
by his wife, Amy Starkie. Reclining alabaster effigies of man in armour
holding a book and below of a woman in contemporary dress wearing a
widow's veil; flanking the two reclining figures are smaller paired figures
of kneeling children, eight sons and one daughter, and also of an infant
in a cradle. Inscription flanked by shields of arms reads:
"HERE LYETH THE BODY OF JOHN SCVDAMORE OF
KENCHVRCH IN THE COVNTIE OF HEREFORD ESQ .....
.... HE DECEASED ON THE XXXth DAY OF MARCH
ANNO SALVTIS 1616."

Listing NGR: SO4194625651

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26632182

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