| 词条 | St Mary's Church, North Leigh |
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|denomination = Church of England |name = St Mary's Church, North Leigh |fullname = Parish Church of St Mary, North Leigh |image = NorthLeigh StMary SouthEast.jpg |caption = |coordinates = {{coord|51|48|52|N|1|26|29|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=title}} |country = United Kingdom | location = North Leigh, Witney, Oxfordshire OX29 6TT |website = St Mary's – North Leigh | former name = |founded date = |founder = |dedication = Saint Mary |dedicated date = |consecrated date = |cult = |relics = |events = |past bishop = |people = |style = Anglo-Saxon, Early English Gothic, Decorated Gothic, Perpendicular Gothic and Georgian | years built = circa 1050–1725 |parish = St. Mary, North Leigh |deanery = Witney |archdeaconry = Oxford |diocese = Oxford |province = Canterbury |vicar = Rev. Margaret Dixon }} The Parish Church of Saint Mary, North Leigh[1][2] is the Church of England parish church of North Leigh, a village about {{convert|3|mi|0}} northeast of Witney in Oxfordshire. From Anglo-Saxon foundation until the ReformationThe bell tower is late Anglo-Saxon, probably built in the first half of the 11th century.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} There was an Anglo-Saxon nave west of the tower, and presumably an Anglo-Saxon chancel east of it.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} In the latter part of the 12th century the nave was abandoned and its arch in the west wall of the tower was blocked up.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} A new nave was built east of the tower in place of the Anglo-Saxon chancel, with north and south aisles flanking it and a new chancel extending further east,{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} all in the Early English Gothic style.{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=719}} Early in the 13th century the arch between the tower and the new nave was enlarged, a third chancel was built east of the 12th-century one, and the 12th-century chancel was made part of the nave.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Early in the 14th century both aisles were extended westwards, flanking the tower on both sides, and arches were cut in the tower to link with the aisle extensions.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} New Decorated Gothic style windows were inserted in the east end of the chancel, the west end of the nave and along the south aisle.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} In the middle of the 14th century the division between the nave and chancel was moved back to where it had been in the 12th century.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} The 13th-century chancel arch was removed, but its imposts remain in the north and south walls of the chancel.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} An arch was cut in the north wall of the chancel, presumably to connect with a new chapel.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} After 1439 this chapel was replaced with a new Perpendicular Gothic style chapel, which has fine fan vaulting of unusually high quality for a parish church.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} It was built for Elizabeth Wilcote, widow of the then Lord of the Manor.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} She had been widowed twice and lost two of her sons,{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} and had ordered the chapel as a chantry to offer Mass for them. Parts of the chapel's original 15th-century stained glass survive in its windows.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} Also in the 15th century, new Perpendicular Gothic windows were inserted in the north and south aisles.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Since the English ReformationThe parents of the Civil War Speaker of the House Commons, William Lenthall, came from North Leigh and are buried in the church. A memorial tablet in the Wilcote chantry chapel commemorates them.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=719}} In 1723, John Perrott, Lord of the Manor, engaged Christopher Kempster of Burford to refit the church and build a burial chapel for the Perrott family to the north of the north aisle.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Kempster was a mason who had worked for Sir Christopher Wren on churches in London.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Kempster linked the Perrott chapel and the north aisle by an arcade of Tuscan columns.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=720}} The chapel is lit by tall, round-headed Georgian windows with plain glass. On the walls are several large, ornate 18th-century memorials to members of the Perott family.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=720}} In 1864 the Gothic Revival architect GE Street restored the church.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=720}} Street unblocked and re-glazed windows that Kempster had blocked up for Perrott, and reinstated the Norman font that Perrott had had removed to the churchyard for use as a water butt.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Kempster had inserted round-headed Georgian windows in the north and south walls of the chancel.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Street replaced these with ones to match the restored Decorated Gothic east window.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} During the works a 15th-century Doom painting at the east end of the nave was uncovered and restored.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} Street also had the south porch rebuilt.{{sfn|Sherwood |Pevsner|1974|p=720}} BellsThere are records of the church tower having bells since the 16th century.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}} By 1875 there was a ring of five, hung for change ringing, which that year were recast by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry to make the current ring of six bells.{{sfn|Crossley|Elrington|1990|pp=231–235}}[3] References1. ^St Mary's – North Leigh 2. ^Oxfordshire Churches & Chapels: North Leigh {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203105448/http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info/NorthLeigh.htm |date=3 December 2009 }} 3. ^{{cite web |url= http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=North+Leigh&Submit=++Go++&DoveID=NORTH+LEIG |title= North Leigh—S Mary |last=Davies |first=Peter |work= Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers |date=14 December 2006 |accessdate=3 November 2009}} Sources and further reading
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