Ashbury St Mary's from the north. |
The church is approached up a cobbled path from the top end of Church :Lane, leading through an iron arch with a suspended wrought iron lantern. |
This lovely Norman door is set into the north wall of the north aisle. The dogtooth pattern is a common motif uin the Norman period. |
A pair of well-worn grotesques sticking out from the wall of the church tower, at the north west corner. There are several of these carved heads around the church perimeter, but this is the onbly double-headed figure that I could see. |
Looking up the nave towards the chancel and east window beyond. Here you get a good sense of the lovely, slender columns that support the nave roof. |
Thee are several excellent carved medieval corbel heads in the nave of St Mary's; this one is on the south east side of the nave, near the chancel arch. |
This official (King James) version of the bible is displayed in a glass case in the north aisle. It dates to 1634 and was printed by Robert Parker, printer to the royal court. |
Immediately to the east of the south door is a double-paned stained glass window. The glass was brought here from nearby Ashdown House. |
Detail of the 1634 King James bible at Ashbury. Here you can clearly see the remarkable state of preservation - the text is clear and easily legible. |
Medieval memorial brass in the chancel. |
The most southerly of the three medieval brasses in the chancel. You can see by the ecclesiastical robes that this was an important church official. |
The central of three medieval brasses set into the chancel floor. |
