Church of St Mary

A Grade I Listed Building in Acton Burnell, Shropshire

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St Mary, Acton Burnell
St Mary, Acton Burnell
St Mary, Acton Burnell, chancel
St Mary, Acton Burnell, Lee monument
St Mary: church built c.1275-1280 by Robert Burnell, later Bishop of Bath & Wells; fortified manor house to the right
St Mary: cruciform plan; west front flanked by buttresses, steep arched doorway; simple Early English tracery in the west window
St Mary: from the south showing Early English style merging towards Decorated
St Mary: from the north-west showing corbel table & original north porch
St Mary: plain nave without aisles; moulded arches to transepts & chancel with foliated capitals
St Mary: chancel with large east window shafted in Purbeck marble (final stages of window development in Early English style)
St Mary: large double piscina with shafts & stiff leaf capitals; basins corbelled with heads
St Mary: table tomb of stone & alabaster to Sir Nicholas Burnell, d.1382; crocketed ogee niches
St Mary: Sir Nicholas Burnell, 1382, under tall concave canopy with pinnacled shafts
St Mary: Sir Nicholas Burnell, 1382; pointed bascinet with aventail
St Mary: inscription from the brass to Nicholas Burnell, d.1382
St Mary: alabaster monument to Richard Lee, d.1591, & wife Eleanor (Wrottesley)
St Mary: Richard Lee, d.1591, lying on rolled up mat
St Mary: Eleanor (nee Wrottesley) wife of Richard Lee, d.1591; on-looking daughters
St Mary: wall memorial by Nicholas Stone to Humphrey Lee, first baronet of Langley, d.1631/2, & wife Margaret (Corbet of Stoke)
St Mary: inscription from the monument to Humphrey Lee, first baronet of Langley, d.1631/2
St Mary: brass inscription to Margaret Smyth (nee Unton of Market Drayton), d.1655