St Mary Shipton Under Wychwood

 

 St Mary Shipton Under Wychwood was the third of the churches I intended to visit and though I thought it was one of the churches featured in the book Oxfordshires Best Churches it was only mentioned, it truth it is one that is worth visiting

"The Church of England parish church of St. Mary has a tower built in about 1200–1250, a 15th-century stone pulpit and font and a Tudor wall monument. The architect Richard Pace designed Saint Mary's Rectory, which was built in 1818.^"

 The south side of the church is more or less hidden by huge fir trees

West end with the spire

^{West end with both north and south aisles}

^{The west door between the buttresses}

^{The doorway that I am assuming is Norman from the carving}

^{North side looking west}

 Windows on the north aisle  along with the north door and a chest tomb

View of the church and spire across the churchyard

The churchyard north of the church has a few chest tombs scattered around

Along with some headstones that look to be dating back to the 1700's

Out the front on the south side of the church are a few more headstones

 

 

 Chest tomb and memorials you can find in the churchyard

 

The new churchyard is west of the church

Accessed from a footpath 

 

You can also find a bale tomb with some of the inscription still visiable
 

 

The bale tomb inscription

 

 

Commonwealth War Graves of Gardsman W.Pittaway, Officer Cadet J.F.Wright and Sargeant F.J.North

 

The porch with a notice informing you it is open.
 

 From the doorway looking towards the nave

 The Nave from near the back

The Chancel looking towards the altar which I forgot to get a photo of

The east window is quit magnificent

Looking back towards the west end

The pulpit and eagle lectern the pulpit it turns out is 15th century

The south aisle and nave from the pulpit

The window in the chancel with chair in front 

 

 

The stained glass window in the south wall of chancel

There are quite a few memorials to see in the church

A collage of memorials that have been put up on the north wall of the church

You can also see some older ones which are more elaborate

This is of the Stampe Family and shows Timothy and his wife, Timothy was buried at Shipton in 1615, James I was on the throne

Collage of memorials

The north aisle

Looking back to the west end of the north aisle

One of the tomb slabs in the church

Along with a tomb recess the head separated from the rest of the body

This is beside the south doorway

Read family Tombs with a plan of the coffins

The south aisle chapel with I think is the lady chapel

The altar with dove of peace on the cloth

Beautiful stained glass window of the lady chapel

A more modern stained glass window in the south wall

Collage of memorials and funerary hatchment

I did like the tapestry in the sitle of the Bayeux Tapestry

Roll of honor and memorials to  fallen parishioners

Reade family memorials there are more either side of the lady chapel window

Another rather nice stained glass window

This is a more modern one

I struggle at telling the age of some fonts that look like this, I had thought it Victorian

Till I looked closer at the carvings around the outside and found out it was 15th century

Church brasses mounted on the wall

This type I have come across a couple of times

In a niche in one of the pillars is this small statue of Madonna and Child.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week