Car Colston St Mary

Features and Fittings

Chancel

Altar

East end of the church,
showing the altar
and communion rail

Detail of the carving
on the altar

Said to be an Elizabethan table, but the columnar turned legs with square section stretchers suggest it could be of a later date, possibly Jacobean of 1620-40.

Reredos

Altar and reredos

Detail of the
reredos carving

Carved by a daughter of Canon Miles of Bingham in 1883, decorated with fruits and corn sheaves.

Altar rails

Dating from 1732, presented by Anna Sherrard, a granddaughter of Robert.

Laudian with single pillar-turned balusters set between pairs of spiral-turned balusters.

Semi-circular gates matching semi-circular chancel step.

Cross

A brass bottonée altar cross with enamel jewels in the crockets. A twisted stem with knot, rising from conical foot, supports the cross.

Containers

Two brass thistle-shaped containers.

Candlesticks

Two brass candlesticks with indented drip pans and cylindrical stems with large central knot.

Candle extinguisher

Brass cone-shaped extinguisher with rolled edge.

Prie deux

Two wood prie deux.

Stalls

Two single-seat stalls with poppy heads.

Credence table

The trestles decorated with quatrefoil openings.

Bier lights

Three iron bier lights, two with shallow drip pans, one with scalloped drip pan, all with twisted stems, single knot and tripartite splayed feet.

Aumbry

Aumbry space, but no door.

Piscina

Has a nodding ogee arch, three carved faces, but all parts seem disparate and not conceived and executed at same time.

Sedilia

The sedilia on the south
wall near the main altar

Detail on the sedilia -
a carved sheep’s head

Three sedilia, heavily crocketed and finialed with a number of small carved faces.

Choir stalls

Two to the north, ditto to south, with poppy heads of carved leaves.

Cross

Wood processional Latin cross with Corpus Christi, on metal pole.

Remembrance table

Twentieth-century, with glass top and sides, containing Book of Remembrance of people whose ashes are buried in churchyard Garden of Remembrance.

Sanctuary lamp

Metal, made by local craftsman, twentieth-century, with scalloped drip pan and chains.

Chandeliers

Twentieth-century, by local craftsman, two wrought iron, in style of corona lucis with eight candle drip pans and four electric light fittings.

Lecterns

One turned wood with cross base.

One, wood with desk supported on pierced cruciform brackets with scalloped edges and turned brass candlestick at right hand sides, on a stepped cruciform-style base.

Clerk’s desk

Wood with brass candleholders at each side.

Bible

A full leather bound Bible, Authorized Version. Published Oxford, printed at University Press 1876. Inscribed on inside front cover:

Presented
the newly restored Church
of
Car Colston
Wm Clowes Esq Junr.
Sept. 1882

Statuette

Small statuette of Virgin Mary with Christ Child on small bracket set on north wall by altar.

Nave

Pulpit

Jacobean pulpit with octagonal drum, the facets having three shallow coffered panels on each, the top one having incised decoration.

Benches

One of the
medieval benches

Bench with 17th
century (?) carving

Two plain benches to north and ditto to south with shaped ends with simple moulded edging.

Several fourteenth-century benches.

Table

Small plain table with brass plate inscribed:

In memory of Henry Casswell Hughes 1840-1928
and of his wife
Martha Ann Hughes 1847-1928
R.I.P.

Alms box

Wood pillar alms box with iron lid, early sixteenth-century.

Font

Plain drum-shaped font with no decoration, from one block of stone, plain wood lid. Norman.

Bier light

Twisted stem, cast iron with tripartite splayed foot and shallow drip pan.

North Aisle

Press

Softwood nineteenth- or twentieth-century linen and vestment press, with drawers labelled white, red, green and purple.

Chest

Twentieth-century frontal chest with hinged top-opening.

Crosses

Corpus Christi on wood Latin cross.

Plain Latin cross.

Table

Twentieth-century roundwood table.

Painting

Copy of Leonardo da Vinci cartoon of the Virgin and Child.

Panel

Framed parchment panel dated 1735: 'AN ACCOUNT OF What Lands &c. have been left for Charitable Uses OF THE Poor of the Parish of Car-Colston, AND BY WHOM.'

South Aisle

Mensa

Stone altar-top on turned wood legs and inscribed with five consecration crosses.

Cross

Plain wood Latin cross above altar.

Candle snuffer

Brass cone-shaped extinguisher with rolled edge.

Piscina

Small, simple piscina.

Wands

Two identical wands with brass finials, one for churchwarden, one for verger.

Candlesticks

Two brass candlesticks.

Rails

Altar rail with two turned tapered balusters with spiral turned baluster between; moulded top rail and flat bottom rail.

Door lock

Lock on south door inscribed 1674 WB. CW

Painting

Oil painting of Assumption of Virgin, painter not known.