Stained Glass - Church of St Mary, Church Lane, Graveley, Hertfordshire. SG4 7LY
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greysman
N 51° 56.272 W 000° 12.301
30U E 692124 N 5757818
There's some nice stained glass in this small C12th parish church.
Waymark Code: WMX3KE
Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/22/2017
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This parish church is Grade I listed. It has a nave C12th Norman; chancel enlarged from smaller semi-circular aspidal form in the early C13th ( some original Norman work can be seen in the western part of the Chancel ); west tower c1480; nave heightened and re-roofed in C15th; south porch probably C18th; north aisle, north vestry and general restoration 1887. Built of flint rubble with stone dressings, the steep old red tile roofs, pyramidal to the tower topped by lead covered standing cross with octagonal tapered shaft. Low pitched lead roof to the nave.
The C13th east windows of the Chancel, probably of three lancets, were replaced c1500 by a window of three cinquefoil lights, but the C13th interior jambs with edge-roll moulding and part of the arch remain. These contain the usual type of memorial glass. In the north wall of the aisle are two C13th lancets and a door to the C19th vestry, the C13th lancets moved here from the old north wall of the nave when the north aisle was added in 1887. At the east end of the south wall is a C13th lancet window and at the west end a pointed segmental arched window c1500 with three cinquefoil lights and disturbed masonry below the cill at the position of a probable low-side window. Some windows have only plain glass in them but there is patterned vivid stained glass c1841 in the lancets to the north and south of the altar. These are my favourite pieces and are those I have waymarked here.
Words variously from British Listed Buildings, Pevsner's Hertfordshire Buildings, amended and added to with own on-site observations.
Co-ordinates are for the south porch.