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St. Mary's is a priory church and an Anglo-Saxon monument of the first order. It is built mostly of roughly coursed rubble with areas of herringbone work. The nave is tall and narrow. The arcades are of circa 1200 and three bays long. The capitals are of enriched trumpet-scallop varieties and also of early stiff-leaf. One capital has bold upright leaves. The arches are moulded. The font is very old - late 9th C. It is a cylindrical bowl with a broad band of double trumpet-spiral ornament occupying half its total height, with narrower bands of vine-scroll above and below. The stem is cylindrical above and octagonal below. The octagonal part of the stem is plain, while the upper cylindrical part is elaborately decorated with alternating panels which alternate between a panel of double spirals; and a panel of a complicated interlacing pattern. There is stained glass in the church by Wailes; and also by Clayton & Bell. In addition glass dating back to the 14th C and mid 15th C can be found in the church windows.
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