Parish Church Of St Mary

SP 84 SW HAVERSHAM CUM LITTLE HIGH STREET LINFORD Haversham

7/97 Parish Church of St. Mary

17.11.66

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Parish Church. C12 nave, late C12 tower. C13 chancel rebuilt, south aisle C14, but enlarged circa 1340. North aisle of C13 enlarged c1360. C14 south porch. Nave clerestory C15. Coursed rubblestone with limestone dressings lead roofs except to south porch which has old tile roof. 2 bay chanel with curvilinear decorated 3-light east window, other chancel windows 2-light, south ones with square heads. South east chapel has C17 straight mullion square head east window. Flowing decorated aisle windows. 2-light square headed clerestory windows to 3 bay nave. Norman west window with chevron outer order on columns with volute capitals. Tower has 2-light openings within round arch, battlemented parapet. South porch has small east trefoiled window. Interior: Chancel arch of chamfered orders, c1325. South nave arcade of 2 chamfered orders, octagonal piers and moulded capitals. East respond has knot corbel. North nave arcade c1360 as south but with moulded label and head stops. Piscina and aumbry in chancel. In south chapel piscina with trefoiled ogee heads. C14. 2 niches in nave east wall. North aisle benches, C16 with cut poppy heads to bench ends. Stained glass. South aisle, west end window and chancel north side, west window 1496, figures including St. John Baptist. In south chapel east window fragments of figures and cross, C15. East window by J.T. Micklethwaite circa 1890. Brasses. Alice Payn 1427 and John Maunsell, 1605, a skeleton, in chancel. Monuments: In chancel north wall canopied alter tomb of c1390. Alabaster effigy of a lady, chest has south side divided into 6 trefoiled panels with carved spandrels. Angel with tablets and its centre 2 panels, men incivilian dress. Stone recess has openwork cusping and ogee gable.

[RCHM II 143 MON 1]

Listing NGR: SP8276642751