Church Of St Mary, Moulton

BEIGHTON TG 40 NW 4/12 Church of St. Mary, Moulton. 25-9-62 I Former parish church, now vested in the Redundant Churches Fund. C12 tower, nave and chancel C14 with some later additions. Red brick, flint with limestone dressings. Nave pantiled with crested ridge, chancel and south porch slated, tower plain-tiled. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch. Round west tower, probably C12, with a plain loop opening on the south side. To the north a larger bell opening with a wooden framed louvre. Blocked 2-light Decorated window to west. Conical plain-tiled roof. C16 red brick south porch with stone sun dial set in south-west corner. Double hollow-chamfered arch with square label and shields set in spandrels. Arched niche over doorway. Blocked 3-light east and west porch windows with plain brick labels. South wall of nave has two 2-light windows with 'Y' tracery of c.1300 with a central 3-light Perpendicular window with head-stops to its hood mould. Staged buttresses divide bays. Chancel has two 2-light south windows with 'Y' tracery replaced in wood, probably early C19. Priest's door with intersecting tracery between windows. East gable of nave slate-hung. Chancel east wall rebuilt in brick; cast iron tie plates dated 1877 and 1879. East window replaced in wood : 3-light with intersecting tracery. Flint and stone buttress at north-east corner. Wide single lancets in north wall of chancel and eastern bay of nave. 2 and 3-light north windows in nave. North doorway with plain and hollow chamfers and scrolled label stops. South door retains medieval ironwork. Nave roof scissor-braced with boarded ceiling; chancel ceiling plastered. Remains of rood stair re-constructed at south east corner of nave. Timber beam with barred chamfer stops in place of chancel arch. Chancel benches with poppy-heads, probably early C17. C17 communion rail with turned balusters and posts. Corbel-head set in window jamb, north wall of chancel. South wall of chancel has a fine double piscina of c.1300 with a sexfoil perforation in the spandrel of the double-arched opening. Dropped cill sedilia. Good wall monument to Edmund Anguish (+1616), his wife and son. Nave has fine wall paintings, probably C14: on the north wall St. Christopher and on the south wall the Seven Acts of Mercy. Finely carved octagonal pulpit, early C17, with backboard and tester. C13 octagonal font with two shallow blind arches on each face, plain central stem and eight plain shafts.

Listing NGR: TG4023906670