St Edburg Bicester Pt2

 

This week The church Explorer takes you around the inside of St Edburg's church which I found to be quite beautiful and full of interest 

South side of St Edburg

The porch, which from the look has a  room over it

The doorway with modern glassed door

I noticed some graffiti on the windowsill in the porch

Inside looking along the nave with north and south aisles

Going right back behind the fond for another view of the interior

Near the chancel arch and the new altar used for services

The altar with Norman arch behind

Inside the chancel with choir stalls

The east window and altar

East window and reredos below

The altar itself is quite stunning along with the reredos behind

View back out from the new altar

From the altar rails the chancel and Norman arch

The pulpit

Which give a great view down on the nave and south aisle

 

There is a lot of stained glass as you would expect in market town church, this one is in the chancel

The screen is in the north aisle I did try to go in but it is locked. Odd thing is I had a selfie stick and did not use it to get a pho of the east window you see

Collage of the stained glass, the center one is my favorite

Memorials or monuments if you like, there are more that you can shake a stick at, this one really stood out

If you look at the scroll you see a face on this one

The monuments are quite something to look at

Collage of the memorial

I thing it was the colour of the coats of arms that I took notice of and that it had a date of 1574 on it

Thomas Roblyn MD a surgeon on the Sloop Bull Dog

Memorials on one of the arches in the nave

Memorial to Lieutenant  William Henry Grimsley

Another old memorial this one dated 1652

Memorial to Mary Wife of John Burrows and three of her children, she was 29

Memorial to John A.l.Coker

You can miss this one which quite low down

Sad War memorial of the Fane family

Collage showing the Roll of Honour for Bicester, the lower one is unusual because you come across few from the Korean war

The Lady chapel, the window here is famed because it is by Morris & co

It is quite stunning to look at

The figures at the base of the window

The west arch

With another wonderful window to look at

At the west end of the there is now a kitchen area

The window in the south wall is quite beautiful to look at and the figures shown look quite modern

different scenes in each panel

with moments in the life of Jesus

The north aisle looking to the panel at the end from by the entrance steps

Zooming in a bit to the panel

The doors I did wonder is one lead to a former rood loft but I was told it just took you too the roof, the one on the right takes you to the bells

 

 

 Victorian scripture panels

More interesting for me are these panels, I can only think of the Norman craftsmen who made them apart from the head in the arch, I'm not sure about that

I think it is amazing considering how old it is

The brasses must have come from a floor tomb now that are displayed on a wall dated 1602

More Norman carvings in the church

I love the head looking out of this corbel

The quatrefoil from around 1250 removed from the parapet of the south aisle and in 2015 when it was added to increase the capacity of the church 

Looking over at the south aisle

Towards the north

The font which I would think is Norman

I will leave you with this photo of the Christmas tree with the chancel arch as background. There is much more to see in the church and I have shown as much as I can but it is worth visiting and I might just do that.

Till next time may I wish you all a peaceful week