nave St Mary's Waterperry
This church is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but its architecture suggests that one had been there since Saxon times. The additional higher chancel arch, is typical of Saxon construction.
Excavations in the corner of the present chancel revealed the outline of a small apse, and short nave, all lying within the present two cell church. At approximately 9 ft in length, this was by no means spacious, and it was demolished in the early 13th century to make way for the present chancel, which would have been constructed to provide for the increased amount of ritual and ceremony which services then called for.
The lower chancel arch dates from the late 13th century, whilst the chancel itself is about 1200.
The nave is in a mixture of styles. The round pillar supporting the the east bay of the nave arcade dates from about 1170, and with a square abacus and scalloped capital exhibits typical work of the Transitional-Norman period. The next pier is typical Norman, with regular masonry and square impost.
The west window is Perpendicular, and in 1527 the open roof of the nave was constructed. The south aisle or Lord's aisle was reconstructed in the 16th century.
nave St Mary's Waterperry
This church is not mentioned in Domesday Book, but its architecture suggests that one had been there since Saxon times. The additional higher chancel arch, is typical of Saxon construction.
Excavations in the corner of the present chancel revealed the outline of a small apse, and short nave, all lying within the present two cell church. At approximately 9 ft in length, this was by no means spacious, and it was demolished in the early 13th century to make way for the present chancel, which would have been constructed to provide for the increased amount of ritual and ceremony which services then called for.
The lower chancel arch dates from the late 13th century, whilst the chancel itself is about 1200.
The nave is in a mixture of styles. The round pillar supporting the the east bay of the nave arcade dates from about 1170, and with a square abacus and scalloped capital exhibits typical work of the Transitional-Norman period. The next pier is typical Norman, with regular masonry and square impost.
The west window is Perpendicular, and in 1527 the open roof of the nave was constructed. The south aisle or Lord's aisle was reconstructed in the 16th century.