Church Micro 3844…Lindsell Letterbox Hybrid
Church Micro 3844…Lindsell
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Church Micro 3844... St Mary The Virgin Lindsell
St Mary stands in the middle of the parish, and is completely surrounded by the buildings and land of Lindsell Hall, whose trees make a pleasant background showing the church in its full beauty. It is one of the nicest locations I have visited to date. The church is built of flint and pebble rubble, the tower being partly brick and the dressings of limestone and clunch. The roof is covered with lead, slate and tiles. The fourteenth-century south doorway, simply moulded, is obscured by a modern porch.Inside the church the natural beauty of the proportions is enhanced by the smallness of the building.
The chancel (14 ft x 19 ft) forms a picture of beauty framed by the flattened semi-circular arch, which dates from the mid-twelfth century and may be even earlier. The thirteenth-century east window contains fragments of ancient and beautiful glass, rearranged in 1926 by Archibald Nicholson for Miss Valentine Fane. In the lower part of the two side lights are two panels with half-length figures kneeling in prayer, each with his wife. The persons represented are William Fytch and his wife Elizabeth, and their son Thomas and his wife Agnes. The latter pair are also commemorated by the brass before the Chancel Arch.
In the north wall of the chancel is a small opening (13 x 9 inches), discovered when the chancel was being repaired in 1926. This formed the opening through which a recluse or anchorite who had built a rough cell against the outside wall looked into church and received the Sacrament. The cell dates from the twelfth century.
The fifteenth-century font is octagonal, with mouldings and panels. The squint in the chancel wall was built in the fifteenth century and rebuilt two hundred years later. It provided a view of the altar and the consecration and elevation of the Host for those in the south aisle or gathered in the doorway.
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