Lawford
LAWFORD (St. Mary) has an early 14th. century chancel. It is four bays long, and is divided by buttresses into two pairs of two. The buttresses between the bays, and the diagonal buttresses at east end have niches. The large north and south windows have three lights, and eight different tracery patterns ..... five of which are unusual. The east window has been renewed, and has a reredos by C. F. Hayward (1884) under it. The windows are shafted, and thick bands of bossy foliage run up the voussoirs. Between the pairs of buttresses is another buttress outside, and inside there is a narrow blank arch, with a tall concave-sided gable, flanked by thin buttresses. In the third window from the west on the north side is an owl in leaves, and on the south side are squirrels. In one of the north windows ..... the eastern one ..... there are two chains of little men, instead of foliage. They are depicted dancing, wrestling, playing musical instruments, and holding each other by their feet, and on the south side the priest's door, sedilia, and picina have similar designs, with five ogee arches seperated by triple shafts. Those in front are square and diapered, and those at the sides are the usual demi-shafts. In the spandrels are more figures ..... with their heads broken off by vandals ..... depicting angels making music on a portable organ, psaltery, gittern, organistrum a sort of hurdy-gurdy, and harp. The rest of the church, nave, south porch, and west tower are of the 14th. century, but appear to be later than the chancel. On the sides of the south porch are the remains of tracery, and the tower, has been repaired in many places with brick. The tower arch is of early 16th. century brick. The north arcade dates from 1826, and the chancel arch is from 1853. In the north aisle is an early 19th. century gallery, of wood on cast-iron shafts.
The Font is on a baluster stem, and dates back to the 19th. century.
There are minor fragments of stained glass, showing tabernacles and leaves, in the chancel windows. The glass in the east window is from about 1850.
A monument in memory of Edward Waldegrave (who died in 1584) and his wife, has the usual kneeling figures, facing each other.