Churches the Victorians Forgot |
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abaci aisle altar arcade architectural back-post bell-openings bell-turret bellcote Benches Box pews brick building buttresses C17/C18 furnishings ceiling centre chancel chancel arch Chancel panelling chapel churchyard circular clerk's desks Commandment boards communion rail corner cornice cusped dentils Early C19 east window egg-and-dart enriched exterior Family pew finial floor fluted Font cover fourteenth century frieze gable Georgian Gothick hatchments Interior looking east lancet late leaf lights Little Washbourne motifs moulded capitals nave nave and chancel octagonal ogee Old Dilton pediment pilasters plain panelling prayer-book Pulpit with tester quarterfoils rail & table reader's and clerk's reader's desk Redundant Churches Fund reredos roof round-arched royal arms screen seventeenth century Shobdon south doorway south porch square Staunton Harold stone text boards thirteenth century three-decker three-decker pulpit three-sided communion rail tie-beams tower arch tracery transept trefoiled turned balusters turned legs Tuscan columns two-decker pulpit Victorian volute wall panelling west gallery west tower Y-tracery