Charborough: St Mary
Overview
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Building
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
1837
The east window has three lights of enamelled glass with large standing figures on pedestals with their symbols above under elaborate crocketted canopies. In the middle is Christ in a red robe and blue mantle under the sacred monogram IHS in a yellow triangle, all on a field of brown diapered glass. In the left light is St. Peter in a green robe and brown mantle under cross keys on an open book and in the right light is St. Paul in a brown robe and purple mantle under a sword on a closed book, both the latter on a blue diapered field. In the tracery is stylised foliage in brown, green and yellow, with zarious formalised figures and in the top tracery light, a quatrefoil, are the arms of Sawbridge Erle Drax.
Stained Glass
1837
The four north and south windows have white quarries with brown lozenges with red and white rosettes in the tracery, all in borders of blue and brown.
Stained Glass
1837
The west window has three lights representing The Ascension in the middle light with a figure of Christ, arms outstretched and clad in a diaphanous robe, after Raphael, with the Holy Ghost in the form of a Doro against clouds above graded from dusky grey and brown at the bottom to yellow and blue at the top. The flanking lights each have quatrofoils enclosing rosettes and IHS in the tracery, all in brown and the arms of Sawbridge Erle Drax again appear in the topmost quatrefoil.
Interior
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
The altar is an oak table consisting of a timber framework in generally Elizabethan style with bulbous legs (probably nineteenth-century) and added carving of grotesque masks, cherubs holding an anchor or a cross, and the front rail enriched with acanthus and a central pendant carved with a cherub's head. Some material is seventeenth-century and some is nineteenth-century, and in its present form the piece dates from 1837. The top is a thick slab of black marble.
Reredos
c.17th Century
A pediment-shaped panel of Continental carved oak, blackened, representingThe Last Judgement carved in half relief. Christ sits in judge ment at the top surrounded by trumpeting cherubs on clouds the Dead arise from their graves below and the Blessed are shepherded by an angel on the dexter side, the Damned goaded by a devil with a pitchfork on the sinister ; this is part of the 1837 furnishings, though probably seventeenth-century in origin.
Pulpit
1837
The pulpit is another of the 1837 furnishings; it is set against the north wall, with a reading desk below, largely of oak and incorporating a miscellany of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century woodwork, principally a set of late sixteenth-century Continental panels with accomplished relief carvings of The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi, The Crucifixion, The Resurrection, The Ascension and Pentecost , the first three in the pulpit and the rest elsewhere in the lower parts. There are also male and female terms of c.1600, and panels carved with a Calvary Cross in a glory with strapwork with pendants of fruit and flowers, a book, a quill, a mitre, a croiser and scrolls with cherub's heads, seventeenth-century. On the wall behind the pulpit is a large cartouche carved with the sacred monogram IHS ensigned with a cross and three nails, late seventeenth-century. The whole assembly was made up in 1837 with a steep flight of eight steps leading up from within the communion rails to the east.
Lectern
The lectern is a reading desk with a front made up in 1837 of a large seventeenth-century panel subdivided into a geometricalpattern of smaller panels carved with stylised foliage add a cherub's head, the sides composed of large elaborately carved scrolled brackets of later seventeenth-century date.
Rail
Mid 17th Century
The communion rails have two tiers of decoration, the lower of cartouches and the upper of short balusters; there are cherubs and scrolls on the uprights and a single- leaved gate. The moulded toprail is carved with acanthus and lion masks.
Churchyard
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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