Diameter: 31.88" Bell 1 of 1
Founded by Simon Severey ('Crostwight Group')
Dove Bell ID: 57803 Tower ID: 22217 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Moulton: St Mary
Overview
Grid reference: TG 402 66
The church is for the most part of c.1300, the south porch being sixteenth-century. A thirteenth century font and the existence of a round tower give evidence of an older church on the site, all vestige of which has vanished.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Round west tower with conical roof, aisleless nave with south porch; chancel.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church is for the most part of c.1300, the south porch being sixteenth-century. A thirteenth century font and the existence of a round tower give evidence of an older church on the site, all vestige of which has vanished.
Exterior Description
The walls are faced with flint (originally rendered) with stone dressing. The east wall of the chancel is of brick, and the south porch is also of brick (but of a different date and type). The nave is roofed with red tiles, as is the tower, but the chancel is roofed with Welsh slates.
The west tower is externally unbroken by stringcourses and has a low pitched conical roof.
The chancel stor is of the same width as the nave, but about two feet lower. In the north wall are two lancets like that in the nave. The east wall is of brick, the three-light intersecting tracery of the window executed in wood. This would suggest an eighteenth- or early nineteenth- century date. The use of brick continues a little way round the north and south corners onto the side walls, and there are stout buttresses.
The south nave wall is divided into three bays by buttresses, with a Y traceriod window near the chancel and another near the porch and between them a Perpendicular three-light window with ogee heads to the outer lights.
The porch is of mellow Tudor brick, with a wide low gable and a small statue niche above the outer doorway.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
Late 18th Century
The small oval heraldic panel in the east window seems to be late-eighteenth-century.
Stained Glass
Late 19th Century
The north window of three lights.
Interior
Interior Description
The floor of the nave is two steps lower than the floor of the porch, and is tiled in the western part with nineteenth-century tiles. Further east these give way to ledger slabs. The tower space is small and very dark because the only window has been blocked. The walls are panelled with pine and two pieces of stone sculpture sit on the window sill. The space at the back of the church is used for storage at present, and is rather untidy in appearance. Above the arch to tthe tower space hangs a large frame with four convas panels painted with the Lord's Prayer, Decalogue and Creed. This was probably originally on the east wall of the nave.
The chancel is of the same width as the nave, but lower, and with a plastered ceiling in contrast to the boarded timber roof of the nave. There is no chancel arch, but the remains of a rood stair built round a wooden upright within a south window indicate a former screen. The Jacobean pulpit stands at the corresponding place on the north side. The walls of the chancel appear to be mediaeval inside, with a pronounced batter which is not so evident in the nave.
Fixtures and fittings
Pulpit
Early 17th Century
The pulpit, of oak, is early seventeenth century. It is hexagonal with two tiers of panels, decorated with moulded lozenges. The backboard has a decorative panel in the middle flanked by scrolls which project at an angle.
Font (object)
13th Century
The Font has a plain octagonal thirteenth-century bowl of Purbeck marble with shallow arches on each face. It is carried on a central drum and eight shafts.
Piscina (object)
Early 13th Century
The piscina in the chancel dates from the early thirteenth-century, and has two arches on small shafts with moulded capitals, the spandrel pierced by a star within a roundel.
Rail
The Communion Rails are Jacobean, with turned uprights and a central gate
Bells
Churchyard
Grid reference: TG 402 66
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.
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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