Thorney with Wigsley St Helen

Features and Fittings

Sanctuary

The sanctuary
looking east

Credence table, chair
and aumbry

Aumbry

Piscina, chair
and sedilia

Piscina

On the north side of the sanctuary there is a stone credence table, supported on carved brackets, and a gabled aumbry in a round-headed opening.

On the south side of the sanctuary there is a moulded round-headed piscina and elaborate double-columned triple sedilia.

There are also two ornately carved oak chairs, the work of the Rev Henry Nevile.

There is an inscription on the base of the altar cross:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARY MATILDA, WIFE OF THE REV. JOHN SMITH,
VICAR OF THORNEY, WHO DIED DEC 6TH 1907. AGED 76 YEARS.

Nave

The font

12th century
font bowl

Pulpit

Pulpit detail

Lectern

The font consists of a circular bowl on a circular stem with blind arcading. The oak cover was carved by the Rev Henry Nevile, brother of the Rev Christopher Nevile, to a design by Mr Willson, the clerk of works during the rebuilding of the church.

A damaged font bowl dating from the 12th century is nearby.

The elaborately carved square stone pulpit is on a polished granite shaft with four subsidiary shafts and is accessed by stairs through the respond of the chancel arch. The two visible sides of the pulpit shown the 12 apostles and Christ preaching on the Mount.

The lectern is in a similar style and has a square moulded base of three stages.

The font, pulpit and lectern date from c1850, are made of Caen stone and were all carved by Mr Willson, clerk of works.

Nevile hatchment
on the north wall

Nevile hatchment
on the south wall

There are hatchments to the Nevile family on both north and south walls of the nave.